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

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 quotes: Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

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 quotes: You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama.

You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama.

Edward Bond quotes: If you can't face Hiroshima in the theatre, you'll eventually end up in Hiroshima itself

If you can't face Hiroshima in the theatre, you'll eventually end up in Hiroshima itself

Edward Bond quotes: If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

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

Edward Bond quotes: The one overall structure in my plays is language.

The one overall structure in my plays is language.

Edward Bond quotes: Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

Edward Bond quotes: Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.

Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.

Edward Bond quotes: In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice.

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

Edward Bond quotes: Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.

Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.

Edward Bond quotes: Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Edward Bond quotes: It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.

Edward Bond quotes: 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.

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 quotes: As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.

As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.

Edward Bond quotes: It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.

Edward Bond quotes: The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

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

Edward Bond quotes: But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

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

Edward Bond quotes: Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

Edward Bond quotes: The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.

Edward Bond quotes: In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

Edward Bond quotes: Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

Edward Bond quotes: Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

Edward Bond quotes: The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

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

Edward Bond quotes: At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

Edward Bond quotes: I'm not interested in an imaginary world.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world.

Edward Bond quotes: We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

Edward Bond quotes: You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

Edward Bond quotes: I'm interested in the real world.

I'm interested in the real world.

Edward Bond quotes: What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

Edward Bond quotes: Sacrilege takes strange forms in the young.

Sacrilege takes strange forms in the young.

Edward Bond quotes: The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.

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

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

Edward Bond quotes: Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

Edward Bond quotes: We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

Edward Bond quotes: 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.

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 quotes: It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.

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

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

Edward Bond quotes: Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.

Edward Bond quotes: It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

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 quotes: I think there is no world without theatre.

I think there is no world without theatre.

Edward Bond quotes: The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

Edward Bond quotes: First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.

First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.