The document contains quotes from the play An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley. It explores themes of social responsibility, class differences, and the impact of individual actions on others through quotes discussing looking after others, blaming oneself and others for a girl's suicide, and the inspector's message that we are all responsible for each other.

1. An Inspector Calls quotes
"Lower costs and higher prices"
"You're just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted"
"A man has to make his own way"
“A man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own”
"The way some of these cranks talk, you'd think everybody has to look after everybody else"
"I refused of course"
“She’d had a lot to say – far too much – so she had to go”
"I don't propose to give you much more rope"
"You weren't asked to come here to talk to me about my responsibilities”
“The famous younger generation who know it all”
“But these girls aren’t cheap labour – they’re people”
“You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl”
“I rather respect you more than I’ve ever done before”
“The point is, you don’t seem to have learnt anything”
“Between us we drove that girl to commit suicide”
“Nothing but morbid curiosity”
“Yes, I think it was simply a piece of gross impertinence”
“First, the girl herself. … Secondly, I blame the young man who was the father of the child… He should be made an
example of”
“It’s my duty to ask questions”
“Why should you do any protesting? It was you who turned the girl out in the first place”
“We are member of one body. We are responsible for each other.
“I wasn’t in love with her or anything – but I liked her – she was pretty and a good sport”
‘they... are pleased with themselves’
‘No work, no, money... half-starved’
‘Just used her for the end of a stupid drunken evening, as if she was an animal, a thing’
‘there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us’
war ‘forgotten’ in ‘1940’
‘exactly as they were at the end of act one’
‘I haven’t much time’
‘if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish’

2. ‘half serious, half playful’
‘you’re just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted. Your father and I have been friendly rivals in business’
‘I understand what happens when a man says he’s so busy at work’
‘we’d have to start all over again’
‘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’
‘I can’t accept any responsibility’
‘I think she only had herself to blame’
‘eachof you helped to kill her’
‘You’re the one I blame for this’
‘there’s been a lot of wild talk about possible labour trouble... Don’t worry. We’ve past the worst of it’
‘It’s better to ask for the earth than to take it’
‘Public men, Mr B, have responsibilities as well as privileges’
‘there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us’
‘We are responsible for each other’
‘You used the power you had... to punish the girl’
‘You’re beginning to pretend now that nothing’s really happened at all’
‘It’s what happened to the girl and what we did to her that matters’
‘He [Meggarty] is a notorious womaniser’
‘impertinently made use of our name’
‘now I say we must discuss the matter quietly and sensibly to see if there’s anything to be done about it’
‘No police inquiry... No scandal’