It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama - Edward Bond
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama
- Edward Bond
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies. - Edward Bond
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
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
Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion. - Edward Bond
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice - Edward Bond
In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost. - Edward Bond
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.
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
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…
If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond. - Edward Bond
If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.
But we are not in the world to be good but to change it. - Edward Bond
But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
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