'You'd think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense'

'There's been a lot of wild talk about possible labour trouble....don't worry. We're past the worst of it'

'I cant accept any responsibility'

'I think Sheila and I had better go into the drawing room and leave you men -'

' I don't suppose for a moment that we can understand why the girl committed suicide. Girls of that class-'

'I think she only had herself to blame.'

[Sheila] 'So nothing really happened. So there's nothing to be sorry for, nothing to learn. We can all go on behaving just as we did'
'Well why shouldn't we?'

'(half serious, half playful)'

'They aren't cheap labour, they're people'

'I want understand what happens when a man says he so busy at work'

'It frightens me the way you talk, and I can't listen to any more of it'

'Your beginning to pretend now that nothings really happened'

'It's what happened to the girl and what we did to her that matters'

[Mr Birling, angrily, on the scandal] ' You're the one to blame for this'

[Mr Birling to Gerald] 'You're just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted. Your father and I have been friendly rivals in business'

'That's right. You've got it. How do we know any girl killed herself today?'

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

'Each of you helped kill her'

'There are million and million and millions of Eva Smith's and John Smith's still left with us'

'We are all responsible for each other'

'If men will not learn that lesson. then they will be taught it in fie and blood and anguish'

- Social Responsibility
- Class
-Patriarchy/Sexism
-Capitalism vs. Socialism
Older vs. Younger Generations