Quote by Edward Bond
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, ju

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

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

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Society
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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

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Society
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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

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In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion. – Jane Smiley

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Religion

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The records do not show that Adam and Eve were married. – Ed Howe

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Religion

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous. – Diodorus Siculus, c.20BC

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Religion

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. – Fred Allen

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Religion

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