Edward Bond
  • Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

  • 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.

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

  • Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

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