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“It’s just that I can’t help thinking about this girl -destroying herself so horribly - and I’ve been so happy tonight.”
“you talk as if we were responsible”
“But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people”
“I expect you’ve done things you’re ashamed of too”
“So I’m really responsible”
“Oh how horrible was it an accident?”
“Why you fool he knows. Of course he knows. And I hate to think how much he knows that we don’t know yet”

“We may look forward to the time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but working together - for lower costs and higher prices.”
“By the way some of these cranks talk and write now, 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.”
“As it happened more than eighteen months ago - nearly two years ago - obviously it has nothing to do with the wretched girl’s suicide.”
“I can’t accept any responsibility.”
“It’s my duty to keep labour costs down.”

“It was my own fault.” (Sheila Birling)
“you couldn’t have done anything else” (Gerald Croft)
“You uses the power you had … to punish the girl.” (Inspector Goole)
“As it happened more than eighteen months ago - nearly two years ago - obviously it has nothing to do with the wretched girl’s suicide.”
“If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody … it would be very awkward wouldn’t it?”

“Arthur, you’re not supposed to say such things” (Mrs Birling)
“[her husband’s social superior]” (Mrs Birling)
“I was an alderman for years - and Lord Mayor two years ago - and I’m still on the Bench,” (Mr Birling)
“If you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d soon be asking for the earth,” (Mr Birling)
“She comes from an old country family - landed people and so forth - and so it’s only natural” (Mr Birling)