Edward Bond Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Edward Bond
Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can. — Edward Bond
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama. — Edward Bond
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins. — 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
WANG. We live in a time of great change. It is easy to find monsters- and as easy to find heroes. To judge rightly what is good - to choose between good and evil - that is all that is to be human. — Edward Bond
Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair. — Edward Bond
If you can't face Hiroshima in the theatre, you'll eventually end up in Hiroshima itself — Edward Bond
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. — Edward Bond
[The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being synonymous with civilization and its cultivation as coming from its natural abilities and not from its wealth and privileged opportunities. It doesn't see that the way in which it monopolizes these things distorts the culture it derives from them and that this makes its culture irrational and an enemy of civilization. — Edward Bond
Shakespeare has no answers for us at all. — 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 truth has got to appear plausible on the stage. — 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
You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama. — Edward Bond
It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play. — Edward Bond
Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence. — 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
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
Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur. — 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
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
O burn the house! You've murdered the husband, slaughtered the cattle, poisoned the well, raped the mother, killed the child - you must burn the house! You're soldiers - you must do your duty ... O burn the house! Burn the house! Burn the house! — 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
The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks. — Edward Bond
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being. — Edward Bond
It's dangerous to tell the truth, truth without power is always dangerous. And we should fight! Freedom's not an idea, it's a passion! If you haven't got it you fight like a fish out of water fighting for air! — 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
If a god had made the world, might world always be right, that would be so wise, we'd be spared so much suffering. But we made the world - out of our smallness and weakness. Our lives are awkward and fragile ... — Edward Bond
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 are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. — Edward Bond
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human. — Edward Bond
It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion. — 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
Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs. — 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
Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice. — 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
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. — Edward Bond
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised. — 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 one overall structure in my plays is language. — Edward Bond
As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street. — Edward Bond