Edward Bond Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“I think there is no world without theatre.”
-- Edward Bond

#Thinking #Theatre #Literature

“If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond”
-- Edward Bond

#People #Important #Levels

“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 violent we have no future.”
-- Edward Bond

#Writing #Negativity #Shapes

“In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice”
-- Edward Bond

#Thinking #Justice #Theatre

“I'm not interested in an imaginary world”
-- Edward Bond

#World #Not Interested #Imaginary

“The one overall structure in my plays is language”
-- Edward Bond

#Play #Language #Structure

“The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks”
-- Edward Bond

#Greek #Theatre

“Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human”
-- Edward Bond

#Animal #Conscious #Unconscious

“It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play”
-- Edward Bond

#Writing #Play #Down And

“It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion”
-- Edward Bond

#Views #Play #Insulting

“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

#Mean #Ideas #Democracy

“The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.”
-- Edward Bond

#Punishment #Empires #Bores

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

#Insecurity #Desert #May

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

#Greek #Literature #Able

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

#Play #Trying #Literature

“At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.”
-- Edward Bond

#Theatre #Doe #Literature

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

#Lasts #Hours #Stage

“Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.”
-- Edward Bond

#Art #Expression #World

“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

#Men #Mad #Awkward

“We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.”
-- Edward Bond

#People #Scar #Hiroshima

“When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.”
-- Edward Bond

#Differences #People #Pits

“It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves”
-- Edward Bond

#Ignorant

“Shakespeare has no answers for us at all”
-- Edward Bond

#Answers

“Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.”
-- Edward Bond

#Taken #Order #Law

“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

#Community #Competition #Ends

“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 #Reality #Our Society

“Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.”
-- Edward Bond

#Drama #Greek #Done

“In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.”
-- Edward Bond

#Past #Goodness #Collectives

“Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.”
-- Edward Bond

#Play #Violence #Affair

“Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.”
-- Edward Bond

#Democracy #Violence #Structure