Edward Bond Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

  Edward Bond

  Writing, Negativity, Shapes

  Edward Bond (2014). “Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion”, p.3, A&C Black

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

  Edward Bond

  Play, Literature, Violence

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

  Edward Bond

  Democracy, Literature, Violence

• 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

  Mean, Ideas, Democracy

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