Top 40 Quotes by Edward Bond

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

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

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.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

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.

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

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.