Quotes

• Social Responsibility

  'Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilites as well as priviledges' - Inspector

  'Like bees in a hive' - Mr B

  'We are responsible for each other' - Inspector
• Capitalism vs. Socialism

  'A man has to make his own way' - Mr B

  'Lower costs and higher prices' - Mr B
• Social Class

  'A girl of that class' - Mrs B

  'We've several hundred young women there' - Mr B

  'We are members of one body' - Inspector
• Age

  'Your daughter isn't living on the moon' - Inspector

  'What's the matter with that child?' - Mr B

  'Why you hysterical young fool' - Mr B
• Gender

  'I hate those hard-eyes dough-faced women' - Gerald

  'She had a lot to say - far too much' - Mr B
• Exploitation

  '[Daisy] gave me a glance that was nothing less than a cry for help' - Gerald

  'Several hundred young women' - Mr B

  'These girls aren't cheap labour - they're people' - Sheila
• Mr Birling

  'I speak as a hard-headed business man'

  'Wretched girls' suicide'

  'I can't accept any responsibility'

  'Lower costs and higher prices'
• Mrs Birling

  'About fifty, a rather cold woman'

  'Girls of that class'

  'I think she only had herself to blame'
• Gerald Croft

  'Hard-eyed dough-faced women'

  'We're respectable citizens not criminals'
• Sheila Birling

  'Now I really feel engaged'

  'These girls aren't cheap labour - they're people'

  'It frightens me the way you talk'
• Eric Birling

  'Not quite at ease'

  'Why shouldn't they try for higher wages?'
• Eva Smith

  'She had a lot to say - far too much' - Mr B

  'Lively - good looking girl' - Mr B

  'Eva Smith' (the name)
• Inspector Goole

  'It's better to ask for the Earth than to take it'

  'Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as priviledges'

  'Fire, blood and anguish'