wealth and materialism

• It's a free country, I told them.


  Mr Birling
• (It's a free country, I told them.)

  It isn't if you can't go and work somewhere else.


  Eric
• You know, of course, that my husband was Lord Mayor only two years ago and that he's still a magistrate?


  Mrs Birling
• There's a fair chance that I might find my way into the next Honours List.' Just a knighthood, of course'-'But it's a bit too early for that. So don't say anything.'


  Mr Birling
• She was one of my employees and then I discharged her.'


  Mr Birling (showing power imbalance)
• Looks down on the Inspector 'I don't like that tone'


  Mr Birling
• Capitalist View "If you don't come down hard on these people they'd soon be asking for the earth."


  Mr Birling
• Nothing to do with you, Sheila. Run along'


  Mr Birling
• Be quiet Sheila'


  Mr Birling
• (unhappily) Look, Inspector - I'd give thousands - yes, thousands -'


  Mr Birling
• You! You don't seem to care about anything. But I care. I was almost certain for a knighthood in the next Honours List'


  Mr Birling
• You'll apologize at once ... I'm a public man -


  Mr Birling
• Public men, Mr. Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges.


  Inspector Goole