Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.
- Edward Bond
Hidden, Within, Structures, Convenience
I'm not interested in an imaginary world.
- Edward Bond
World, Imaginary World, Imaginary
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
- Edward Bond
Mind, Drama, Itself, Saturated
The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.
- Edward Bond
Truth, Stage, Appear, Plausible
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
- Edward Bond
New, Next, Century, Ruins
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.
- Edward Bond
Lost, Radical, Bodies, Humanness
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
- Edward Bond
Play, Problem, Stage, Head-On
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
Genes, Means, Containing, Restraining
Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
- Edward Bond
Solution, Never, Plays, Human Affairs
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
- Edward Bond
Question, Human Being, Meant, Meant To Be
It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.
- Edward Bond
Play, View, His, Dramatist
In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice.
- Edward Bond
Theatre, Think, I Think, In The End
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
- Edward Bond
Punishment, English, Abroad, Empire
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
Making, I Write, Plays, Rational
The one overall structure in my plays is language.
- Edward Bond
Language, Plays, Overall, Structure
If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.
- Edward Bond
Important, Will, Level, Engage
Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.
- Edward Bond
Answers, Us, Shakespeare
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
Understand, Might, Helping, Useful
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
- Edward Bond
Tragedies, Very, Things, Extreme
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
Within, Private, Everybody, Objectives
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
Waste, Fifteen, Plays, Waste Of Time
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.
- Edward Bond
More, Unconscious, Even, Conscious
Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.
- Edward Bond
Tragedy, Which, Occur, Auschwitz
Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
- Edward Bond
Chair, Product, Get, Auschwitz
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
Explore, Think, Simplistic, Further
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
Art, Happen, Scrutiny, Therefore
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
- Edward Bond
Scars, Living, Still, Hiroshima
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.
- Edward Bond
Always, In The Past, Became, Goodness
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
- Edward Bond
Done, Greek, Had, Goodness
It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.
- Edward Bond
Me, Seems, Profoundly, Ignorant
I'm interested in the real world.
- Edward Bond
World, Real, Real World, The Real World
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
Theatre, Now, Need, Devil
You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
- Edward Bond
Language, Learn, You, Hamlet
The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.
- Edward Bond
Theatre, Our, Greeks
I think there is no world without theatre.
- Edward Bond
World, Think, I Think, Theatre
At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.
- Edward Bond
Turn, Century, Does, Theatre
Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.
- Edward Bond
Government, Needs, Itself, Economy
You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama.
- Edward Bond
Drama, You, Go, Ultimate
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