Edward Bond

“Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.”

“All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition...”

“Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I'm not interested in an imaginary world.”

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

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