The inspector

• Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges
• It's better to ask for the earth than to take it
• She was out of work the next 2 months...no money...no relatives to help her...half starved, she was feeling desperate.
• It would all do us a bit of good if sometimes we tried to put ourselves in the place of these young women counting the pennies in their dingy, little bank bedrooms.
• Remember what you did ... used her as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person
• You made her pay a heavy price.
• She came to you for help ... she was alone, friendless, almost penniless, desperate ... And you slammed the door in her face.
• One Eva Smith is gone - but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us... We don't live alone ... We are responsible for each other.
• If men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.
• His surname, 'Goole' indicates ghostly presence because he has the voice of Eva Smith, when she is dead. He is also the voice if J.B Priestly because he asks the characters what Priestly wants to ask the upper class people in the audience