Top 40 Quotes by Edward Bond

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

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

I think there is no world without theatre.

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

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.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

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.