How we cite our quotes: (Act.Line)
Quote #10
You know he will. Don't be a hypocrite, Barbara. He will be better fed, better housed, better clothed, better behaved; and his children will be pounds heavier and bigger. That will be better than an American cloth mattress in a shelter, chopping firewood, eating bread and treacle, and being forced to kneel down from time to time to thank heaven for it: knee drill, I think you call it. It is cheap work converting starving men with a Bible in one hand and a slice of bread in the other. I will undertake to convert West Ham to Mahometanism on the same terms. Try your hand on my men: their souls are hungry because their bodies are full. (3.318)
Undershaft seems to think that it's kind of hypocritical to claim a moral high ground in converting people when you're basically bribing them with food (i.e., not exactly tempting them just on the merits of Jesus).