All Edward Bond Quotes
- Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human Animal
- The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks From
- The one overall structure in my plays is language Inspirational
- I'm not interested in an imaginary world Imaginary
- In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice End
- If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond Engage
- It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas Assumed
- The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. Abroad
- We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins. Century
- When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost. Bodies
- 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… Austen
- We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. Aftershock
- At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive. Century
- What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion. Evasion
- What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being. Able
- Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it. Economy
- You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama. Drama