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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
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Edward Bond
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 18
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Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.
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But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
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First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.
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What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
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In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice
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The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama
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Shakespeare has no answers for us at all
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When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.
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At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.
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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.
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