I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, … - Edward Bond

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Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.

Edward Bond

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

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I think there is no world without theatre.

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The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

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

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

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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.

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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

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Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

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