“Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.”

“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”

“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”

“If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.”

“Can't be part of the rat race when you're one of the rats who knows you're in a cage.”

“Impoverished Paris Street Merchant (Jack Carter): Rats, rats for sale. Get your rats. Good for rat stew, rat soup, or the ever-popular ratatouille.”

“No. You don't get to call me Izzy, you don't send me letters, you don't follow me into dark corridors and try to save me from rats."
"Trust me, we see a rat, it's every man for himself.”

“If we are to be the last of the white men who conquered the world; if we are finally to be overwhelmed by a pack of rats, let us at least face the death of our race as our ancestors faced their death---like MEN. Let us not crawl down amongst the rats begging for mercy or trying to out-sneak them and pretend to be rats ourselves!”

“Think of lab rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' … Each rat runs with a designated, neatly bifurcated (Republican or Democratic) political orthodoxy. Each is a 'maze-bright' rat, and not the possessor and giver of any truth.”

“Despite all my rage
I am still just a rat in the cage.”