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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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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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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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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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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. – Hannah Arendt

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Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game? – J. G. Ballard

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Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. – John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667

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He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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