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.
Edward Bond

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

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

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.
Edward Bond

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

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

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
Edward Bond

The one overall structure in my plays is language.
Edward Bond

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.
Edward Bond

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.
Edward Bond

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama.
Edward Bond

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
Edward Bond