And haven't you driven the masters to it, as well?
JOB ARTHUR. I don't see that.
OLIVER. Can't you see that it takes two to make a quarrel? And as
long as each party hangs on to its own end of the stick and struggles
to get full hold of the stick, the quarrel will continue. It will
continue till you've killed one another. And even then, what better
shall you be? What better would you be, really, if you'd killed
Gerald Barlow just now? You wouldn't, you know. We're all human
beings, after all. And why can't we try really to leave off
struggling against one another, and set up a new state of things?
JOB ARTHUR. That's all very well, you see, while you've got the
goods.
OLIVER. I've got very little, I assure you.
JOB ARTHUR. Well, if you haven't, those you mix with have. They've
got the money, and the power, and they intend to keep it.
OLIVER. As for power, somebody must have it, you know. It only rests
with you to put it into the hands of the best men, the men you REALLY
believe in.--And as for money, it's life, it's living that matters,
not simply having money.
JOB ARTHUR. You can't live without money.
OLIVER. I know that. And therefore why can't we have the decency to
agree simply about money--just agree to dispose of it so that all men
could live their own lives.
JOB ARTHUR. That's what we want to do. But the others, such as
Gerald Barlow, they keep the money--AND the power.
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