An Inspector Calls

“The Titanic — she sails next week... and she's unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.”

“A man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own.”

“As if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive — community and all that nonsense.”

“Lower costs and higher prices.”

“As if she was an animal, a thing, not a person.”

“Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges.”

“Each of you helped to kill her.”

“We are members of one body. 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.”

“But there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us.”

“But after all it's better to ask for the earth than to take it.”

“These girls aren't cheap labour — they're people.”

“Girls of that class—”

“I did nothing I'm ashamed of.”