Quotes By Edward Bond

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.

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.

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

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.

The one overall structure in my plays is language.

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 is antagonism.

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

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.

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