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
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. – Edward Bond
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. – Edward Bond
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama. – Edward Bond
Complication has penetrated everywhere. Few people have an immediate insight into moral truth such as nature has revealed it. Almost all men, even the least cultivated, only see invisible things through phrases. Intuition is very rare, ready-made phrases are common and cheap. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), Philosophy. First Section: Pure Philosophy. C