Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

- Edward Bond

In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice

- Edward Bond

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

- Edward Bond

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

- Edward Bond

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

- Edward Bond

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

- Edward Bond

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

- Edward Bond

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama

- Edward Bond

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent…

- Edward Bond