Edward Bond Quotes

"You have to learn the language of Hamlet."
- Edward Bond
(Related: Language)

"You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama."
- Edward Bond
(Related: Drama)

"When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost."
- Edward Bond
(Related: People, Difference, Radical, Walking)

"What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being."
- Edward Bond
(Related: Being, Question, Shakespeare)

"We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins."
- Edward Bond
(Related: End, May, Will)

"We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history."
- Edward Bond
(Related: History, People, Living)

"Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs."
- Edward Bond
(Related: Solution, Violence)

"Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism."
- Edward Bond
(Related: Democracy, Violence)

"The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage."
- Edward Bond
(Related: Truth)

"The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks."
- Edward Bond
(Related: Theatre)

"The one overall structure in my plays is language."
- Edward Bond
(Related: Language)

"The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama."
- Edward Bond
(Related: Society, Drama, Mind)

"The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies."
- Edward Bond
(Related: Extreme)

"If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond."
- Edward Bond
(Related: People, Will)

"Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it."
- Edward Bond
(Related: Government, Economy, Needs, Will)

"The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment."
- Edward Bond
(Related: English, Punishment)

"I'm interested in the real world."
- Edward Bond
(Related: World)

"I'm not interested in an imaginary world."
- Edward Bond
(Related: World)

"In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice."
- Edward Bond
(Related: End, Justice, Theatre)

"In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised."
- Edward Bond
(Related: Experience, Goodness, Past)

"It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves."
- Edward Bond

"Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done."
- Edward Bond
(Related: Religion, Society, Debate, Drama, Goodness)

"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
(Related: Ideas, Democracy, Violence)

"Shakespeare has no answers for us at all."
- Edward Bond
(Related: Answers, Shakespeare)

"It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play."
- Edward Bond
(Related: Play)

"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
(Related: Being, Drama, Now, Theatre)

"It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion."
- Edward Bond
(Related: Opinion, Play)

"Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human."
- Edward Bond
(Related: Unconscious)

"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
(Related: Money, World)

"I think there is no world without theatre."
- Edward Bond
(Related: Theatre, World)

"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
(Related: Job, Propaganda, Theatre, Will)

"Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair."
- Edward Bond
(Related: Humanity)

"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
(Related: People, Animals, Devil, First, Now, Theatre)

"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
(Related: Time, Production, Waste, Years)

"Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur."
- Edward Bond
(Related: Tragedy)

"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
(Related: Society, Being, Community, Competition, Now, Objectives)

"But we are not in the world to be good but to change it."
- Edward Bond
(Related: Change, World)

"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
(Related: Art, Society, Reality)

"At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive."
- Edward Bond
(Related: Theatre)