All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.
Edward Bond

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
Edward Bond

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.
Edward Bond

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.
Edward Bond

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
Edward Bond

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.
Edward Bond

First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.
Edward Bond

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
Edward Bond

I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.
Edward Bond

I think there is no world without theatre.
Edward Bond


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.
Edward Bond

I'm interested in the real world.
Edward Bond

I'm not interested in an imaginary world.
Edward Bond

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.
Edward Bond

In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice.
Edward Bond

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.
Edward Bond

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.
Edward Bond

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.
Edward Bond

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

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.
Edward Bond