Quotes from Edward Bond

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

The one overall structure in my plays is language.

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

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

Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.