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Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

Edward Bond

Democracy

Violence

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

Edward Bond

Solution

Violence

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

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

You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama.

Edward Bond

Drama

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

Edward Bond

Language

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

Edward Bond

Play