He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.
7 seconds sound clip from the A Clockwork Orange movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:27:14 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Choice. The boy has no real choice, has he?
- 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.
- Padre, these are subtleties.
- And with relieving the ghastly congestion in our prison.
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