Edward Bond Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

  Edward Bond

  People, Important, Engagement

  "Still bolshie after all these years" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2000.

• I think there is no world without theatre.

  Edward Bond

  Thinking, Theatre, Literature

• 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

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

  Edward Bond

  Play, Literature, Violence

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

  Edward Bond

  Art, Reality, Literature

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

  Edward Bond

  Punishment, Literature, Empires

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

  Edward Bond

  Insecurity, Desert, Literature

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

  Edward Bond

  Humanness Is, Differences, People

• At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

  Edward Bond

  Theatre, Doe, Literature

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

  Edward Bond

  Play, Trying, Literature

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

  Edward Bond

  Greek, Literature, Able

  "Still bolshie after all these years" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2000.

• I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.

  Edward Bond

  Jobs, Thinking, Political

• 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

• 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.

  Edward Bond

  Writing, Play, Mad

• In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

  Edward Bond

  Past, Literature, Goodness

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

  Edward Bond

  Drama, Mind, Literature

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

  Edward Bond

  Drama, Greek, Done

• 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

  Drama, Theatre, Literature

• It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion

  Edward Bond

  Views, Play, Insulting

• Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

  Edward Bond

  Years, Play, Literature

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

  Edward Bond

  Animal, Literature, Conscious

  Edward Bond (1998). “Bond Plays: 6: The War Plays; Choruses from After the Assassinations”, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

• Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

  Edward Bond

  Humanity, Literature, Chairs

  "Still bolshie after all these years" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2000.

• The one overall structure in my plays is language

  Edward Bond

  Play, Literature, Language

  Edward Bond (1998). “Bond Plays: 6: The War Plays; Choruses from After the Assassinations”, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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

  Edward Bond

  Animal, People, Theatre

  Edward Bond (2013). “Bond Plays: 5: The Bundle; Human Cannon; Jackets; In the Company of Men”, p.32, A&C Black

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