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" It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas. "

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" In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised. "

" Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair. "

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

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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. "

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" I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it. "

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" I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me. "

" I'm interested in the real world. "

" We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins. "

" I'm not interested in an imaginary world. "

" Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs. "

" But we are not in the world to be good but to change it. "

" Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed. "

" What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion. "

" 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. "