Edward Bond > Quotes

“If you can't face Hiroshima in the theatre, you'll eventually end up in Hiroshima itself”
― Edward Bond

“Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.”
― Edward Bond, Lear

“It's dangerous to tell the truth, truth without power is always dangerous. And we should fight! Freedom's not an idea, it's a passion! If you haven't got it you fight like a fish out of water fighting for air!”
― Edward Bond, Lear

“I think drama has to push things to extremes so that we can understand what we are doing in our society.”
― Edward Bond

“[The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being synonymous with civilization and its cultivation as coming from its natural abilities and not from its wealth and privileged opportunities. It doesn't see that the way in which it monopolizes these things distorts the culture it derives from them and that this makes its culture irrational and an enemy of civilization.”
― Edward Bond, The Worlds with The Activists Papers

“O burn the house! You've murdered the husband, slaughtered the cattle, poisoned the well, raped the mother, killed the child - you must burn the house! You're soldiers - you must do your duty ... O burn the house! Burn the house! Burn the house!”
― Edward Bond, Lear

“WANG. We live in a time of great change. It is easy to find monsters- and as easy to find heroes. To judge rightly what is good - to choose between good and evil - that is all that is to be human.”
― Edward Bond, Coffee & The Bundle

“The artist tries to show reason in experience and appearance – and lyric is the daily appearance, the commonplace dress, of reason. It shows us the rational. It makes the epic pattern human. It's the footprint on the pathway. In the epic-lyric the individual and particular are no longer isolated but are placed in a historical, social, human pattern. That's why there's a political way of cutting bread or wearing shoes.”
― Edward Bond, Plays 4: The Worlds / The Activists Papers / Restoration / Summer

“Sacrilege takes strange forms in the young.”
― Edward Bond, The Woman

“If a god had made the world, might world always be right, that would be so wise, we'd be spared so much suffering. But we made the world - out of our smallness and weakness. Our lives are awkward and fragile...”
― Edward Bond

“ШЕКСПИР: Вчера бев крај реката. Таков мир. Сите беа овде. Немаше риболовци, немаше бротчиња. Имаше само едно момче, го чуваше добитокот - по казна. Ги гледав рибите како ловат муви. И тогаш еден лебед пролета покрај мене нагоре по реката. Леташе право, малку над водата. Жена во бел фустан трча низ празна улица. Вратот му се извиваше како бран. Му го слушнав дишењето кога пролета покрај мене. Воздивнуваше. Белиот лебед и темната вода. Право кон средината на реката, а потоа сврте и го снема. Уште се слушаше трепетот на крилјата. Господ знае каде замина. Таков мир, а потоа тишина. (Покажува наоколу.) А тука беше жешко - (се исправа) - врева - прашина … таа не виде ништо од тоа - (Покажува кон хоризонтот.) целата глетка… Каде да одам? Лондон? Да останам овде? (Оди кон бесилката. СТАРИЦАТА го гледа.) Уште е совршена. Уште е убава.

Во далечината се слуша кусо биење на камбаната.”
― Edward Bond, Bingo: Scenes Of Money And Death

“I see my life. A black tree by a pool. The branches are covered with tears. The tears are shining with light. The wind blows the tears in the sky, and my tears fall down on me.”
― Edward Bond, Lear