# Quote — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

> “The common people will let it go. Oh yes, they’ll sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be led, sir, driven, pushed!”

- Author: [Anthony Burgess](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-burgess.md)
- Book: [A Clockwork Orange](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-burgess/a-clockwork-orange.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-burgess/a-clockwork-orange/the-common-people

## More from this book

> "The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-burgess/a-clockwork-orange/the-attempt-to-impose.md)

> "Initiative comes to them as wait."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-burgess/a-clockwork-orange/initiative-comes-to-them.md)

> There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-burgess/a-clockwork-orange/there-was-me-that-is.md)