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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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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.
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Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.
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Shakespeare has no answers for us at all
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As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.
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Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.
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If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.
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