Quotes By 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.

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

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.

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

I think there is no world without theatre.

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

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

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.

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.