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

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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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All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished. – Marshall Rosenberg

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I object to violence because, when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. – Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948), in Young India, 1925

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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. – Gandhi

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In violence we forget who we are. – Mary McCarthy

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