Top 40 Quotes by Edward Bond

Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.

In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice.

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

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

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

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

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.

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