Edward Bond

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

"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. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism."

"Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society."

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

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