Anthony Burgess Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

  Anthony Burgess

  Energy, Littles, Violence

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

• Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

  Anthony Burgess

  Modern Youth, Down And, Great Music

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

• ...youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines.

  Anthony Burgess

  Brother, Spring, Animal

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.211, W. W. Norton & Company

• Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which produced Beethoven and Schweitzer, sets an even higher value on the transient anodynes of youth than does youth itself.... They are the Hollow Men. They are electronic lice.

  Anthony Burgess

  Men, Merit, Doe

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