How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from A Clockwork Orange.
Quote #1
ALEX: We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure, O my brothers, so we got rid of the auto and stopped off at the Korova for a nightcap.
Alex's morality is definitely skewed. After beating up homeless people and raping a woman, how does he feel? Tired!
Quote #2
CHAPLAIN: Choice! The boy has no real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fear of physical pain drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.
The Minister believes that morality comes from within. But aren't laws and religion just ways of persuading people to make the "right" choice? If so, the Ludovico technique isn't any different.
Quote #3
THE MINISTER: Padre, these are subtleties. We are not concerned with motive, with the higher ethics; we are concerned only with cutting down crime. And with relieving the ghastly congestion in our prisons...
In A Clockwork Orange, every decision a government makes is based on potential political gains. The morality, or lack of, is a side effect.