Common people Quote by Anthony Burgess

““The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded.””

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If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

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Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

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A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

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“A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.”

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All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

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Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.

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The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by…

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Civilised my syphilised yarbles.

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The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

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Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

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The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I…

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... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky…

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Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.

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History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.

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That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary…

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Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing…

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The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions, they are…

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“I've said this before: a lot of people think they're artists because they feel things deeply. You know, we're in a culture now and…

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Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the…

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