English - Playwright | July 18, 1934 -
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
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It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.
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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.
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Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.
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Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
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Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.
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The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
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The one overall structure in my plays is language.
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The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.
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Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
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We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
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What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
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