How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from A Clockwork Orange.
Quote #1
ALEX: There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim and we sat in the Korova milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova Milk Bar sold milkplus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.
This is the first line in the film, and it lets us know what to expect—nonsense slang and violence. Also, Alex seems to imply that the milk is laced with a chemical that gets them amped up. It doesn't cause them to be violent—they would be without it—but it enhances their capacity for it.
Quote #2
TRAMP: Oh! Ow!
After our brief introduction to our protagonist, we see him and his gang beat up a homeless man. What a guy, right? Seeing him beat up a helpless man makes it hard to root for Alex from early on.
Quote #3
ALEX: It was around by the derelict casino that we came across Billyboy and his four droogs. They were getting ready to perform a little of the old in-out, in-out on a weepy young devotchka they had there.
However, after beating up an old man, Alex seems to "save" a woman who is about to be raped by a rival gang. Alex waits until she's completely naked before stepping in, though, so this is less about being chivalrous than it is about taunting Billyboy's rival gang just as they're about to harm the woman.
Quote #4
ALEX: Soon it was trees and dark, my brothers, with real country dark. […] We fillied around for a while with other travelers of the night, playing "Hogs of the Road." Then we headed west, what we were after now was the old surprise visit, that was a real kick and good for laughs and lashing of the ultra-violent.
After beating up Billyboy's gang, Alex is still feeling an adrenaline rush from the violence, so he goes on a destructive drive, and arrives at the home of the writer to beat him and rape his wife. There really isn't anything about this violent young punk to like.
Quote #5
ALEX: As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures.
Alex's masturbatory fantasies are violent in nature, showing us that he is turned on by the violence he commits. It doesn't repulse him at all.
Quote #6
ALEX: But, suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends, for now it was lovely music that came to my aid. There was a window open with the stereo on, and I viddied right at once what to do.
Later, Alex becomes sick when he listens to Beethoven, and it is seen as a tragedy that he can't enjoy the 9th Symphony. But here, we see that even Beethoven inspires Alex to violence. Everything makes him violent, even classical music.
Quote #7
INSPECTOR: Violence makes violence. He resisted his lawful arrestors.
This brief quote is interesting, because it is about the dilemma of what to do with violent offenders. How to punish them? Or rehabilitate them? Violent punishment will only make them more violent, but what can the justice system do?
Quote #8
ALEX: I read all about the scourging and the crowning with thorns and all that, and I could viddy myself helping in and even taking charge of the tolchocking and the nailing in, being dressed in the height of Roman fashion.
Alex reads the Bible, but he relishes the violent portions of it, of which they are many. He doesn't think of himself as a Jesus figure or a martyr. He wants to be the one killing the martyr.
Quote #9
ALEX: The sounds were real horrorshow. You could slooshy the screams and moans very realistic and you could even get the heavy breathing and panting of the tolchocking malchicks at the same time. And then, what do you know, soon our dear old friend, the red, red vino on tap. The same in all places like it's put out by the same big firm, began to flow. It was beautiful. It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on a screen.
It's unclear, but Alex may be watching a snuff film here, which is why the blood looks so real. However, it shows his disconnect from reality. He has drawn plenty of blood from his violent acts, yet he only thinks it looks real on screen. He is detached and desensitized to violence in real life.
Quote #10
ALEX: Now all the time I was watching this, I was beginning to get very aware of like not feeling all that well, and this I put down to all the rich food and vitamins. But I tried to forget this, concentrating on the next film, which jumped right away on a young devotchka, who was being given the old in-out, in-out, first by one malchick, then another, then another. When it came to the sixth or seventh malchick, leering and smecking and then going into it, I began to feel really sick. But I could not shut my glazzies and even if I tried to move my glazballs about I still not get out of the line of fire of this picture.
This is when Alex talks about the Ludovico procedure, which sensitizes him to violence. It does it through a chemical process that makes him sick. Deep inside, he still enjoys what he sees, and he is still a violent person at heart, but he doesn't enjoy the upset-stomach feeling.