“I tell you, the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.”
“We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.”
“We often do on the young ones. They’re more impressionable.”
“We have to share our guilt.”
“You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble, that’s all.”
“I don’t believe that kind of girl. She was young and pretty and warm-hearted – and intensely grateful. I became at once the most important person in her life.”
“He inspected us alright.”
“I can’t help thinking about this girl – destroying herself so horribly – and I’ve been so happy tonight. Oh, I wish you hadn’t told me.”
“One Eva Smith has gone – but there are millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths left with us.” “Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices.”
“I was almost certain for a knighthood in the next honours list.”
“If men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.”
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“You think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?”
“And I say, the girl’s dead and we all helped to kill her – and that’s what matters.”
“There are millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us.”
“Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices.”
“Well, I don’t blame you. But don’t forget I’m ashamed of you as well – yes both of you.”
“We can’t let these Bernard Shaws and H.G. Wellses do all the talking. We hard-headed practical business men must say something sometime.”
“You’re offering money as if that’s the only thing that matters.”
“But the whole story’s just a lot of moonshine. Nothing but an elaborate sell.”
“I say there isn’t a chance of war. The world’s developing so fast, it’ll make war impossible.”
“Yes, but you can’t. It’s too late. She’s dead.”
“If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward, wouldn’t it?”