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Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.
Edward Bond
Answers
Shakespeare
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
Ideas
Democracy
Violence
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
Edward Bond
Religion
Society
Debate
Drama
Goodness
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.
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Experience
Goodness
Past
In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice.
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End
Justice
Theatre
I'm not interested in an imaginary world.
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World
I'm interested in the real world.
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World
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
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English
Punishment
Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.
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Government
Economy
Needs
Will
If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.
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People
Will
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
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Extreme
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
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Society
Drama
Mind
The one overall structure in my plays is language.
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Language
The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.
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Theatre
The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.
Edward Bond
Truth