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All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.

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I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.
Edward Bond
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
Edward Bond
You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama.
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But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
Edward Bond
I think there is no world without theatre.
Edward Bond
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
Edward Bond
If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.
Edward Bond
It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.
Edward Bond
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.
Edward Bond
At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.
Edward Bond
All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.
Edward Bond
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.
Edward Bond
Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.
Edward Bond
Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
Edward Bond
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
Edward Bond
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
Edward Bond
It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.
Edward Bond
I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.
Edward Bond
Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.
Edward Bond
Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.
Edward Bond
The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.
Edward Bond
It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.
Edward Bond
In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice.
Edward Bond
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
Edward Bond
The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.
Edward Bond
Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.
Edward Bond
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
Edward Bond
You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
Edward Bond
I'm interested in the real world.
Edward Bond
First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.
Edward Bond
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
Edward Bond
The one overall structure in my plays is language.
Edward Bond
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.
Edward Bond
Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.
Edward Bond
Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
Edward Bond
I'm not interested in an imaginary world.
Edward Bond
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
Edward Bond
Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.
Edward Bond
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
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
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
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 we have no future.
Edward Bond
I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.
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What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.
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In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.
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Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.
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Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.
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I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.
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