Capitalism vs Socialism

• "for lower costs and higher prices,"
• “employers are at last coming together to see that our interests - and the interests of Capital - are properly protected,”
• "unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable"
• "“a man has to make his own way - has to look after himself"
• “I can’t accept any responsibility,”
• “Don’t tell me that’s because I discharged her from my employment nearly two years ago,”
• "“They were averaging about twenty-two and six, which was neither more nor less than is paid generally in our industry"
• "If I’d agreed to this demand for a new rate we’d have added about twelve percent to our labour costs,”
• “I don’t see that it’s any concern of yours how I choose to run my business,”
• "A chain of events"
• “We have to share something. If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt,”
• “We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other,”
• “If men will not learn that lesson, they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish,”
• "If there weren’t, the factories and warehouses wouldn’t know where to look for cheap labour,”
• "You made her pay a heavy price for that"
• “I wasn’t satisfied with the girl’s claim - she seemed to me to be not a good case,”
• “You slammed the door in her face”
• “she hadn’t been able to save much out of what Birling and Company had paid her,”
• “So that after two months, with no work, no money coming in, and living in lodgings, with no relatives to help her, few friends, lonely, half-starved, she was feeling desperate,”
• “She was here alone, friendless, almost penniless, desperate"
• "She needed not only money but advice, sympathy, friendliness,”
• “some sort of crank”
• "All mixed up together like some bees in a hive"
• "community and all that nonsense"
• "It's my duty to keep labour costs down"
• "If you don't come down sharply on these people, they'll soon be asking for the earth"
• "I'm talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business"
• "there are millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths"
• "they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish"
• "He was prejudiced from the start: probably a socialist or some sort of crank"
• Mr Birling - “be living in a world that’ll have forgotten about all these Capital versus Labour agitations”