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Quote by Edward Bond
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about man

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

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Religion
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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. Its called competition. And competition is antagonism. – Edward Bond

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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. – Isaac Asimov

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Violence

The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder. – Henry C. Wright, The Liberator, 7 April 1837

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Violence

Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun – Don Henley

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Violence

Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me. – Woody Harrelson

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Violence

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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features. – Primo Levi

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. – Proverb

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My youth passed at the time of the countrys reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle. – Lech Walesa

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