A Quote by Bertolt Brecht
If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.
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I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats.
I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.
The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.
A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.
The rat race is real. I was part of the rat race.
It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine.
What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.
It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.
Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat.
People sometimes forget that a rat race can be won only by a rat.
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.
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.
You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.
Only a rat can win a rat race.
No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences. My times become slower and slower, but the experience of the race is unchanged: each race a drama, each race a challenge, each race stretching me in one way or another, and each race telling me more about myself and others.
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