Top 51 The Rat Race Quotes
#1. We can leave the rat race to rodents... but I suspect that even they wouldn't like it
Adriano Bulla
#2. I will not join the rat race because I'm not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because I'm not a bat. The only race I'll take part in is for humans being humane. It's called the human race, and sadly it's got the least participants.
Suzy Kassem
#3. In our own contemporary context of the rat race of anxiety, the celebration of Sabbath is an act of both resistance and alternative. It is resistance because it is a visible insistence that our lives are not defined by the production and consumption of commodity goods.
Walter Brueggemann
#4. They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.
Bob Dylan
#5. Life had become some kind of profound competition, where my emotional loss was substituted by my professional success. I became a part of what they call the rat race.
Saurbh Katyal
#6. I go down to New York, do the project, and leave. I have no interest in participating in the rat race down there. Hip jazz fans know who I am. There's a generation of musicians in New York who know my records better than I do.
Paul Smoker
#8. Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.
Johann Lamont
#9. Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else - Satan has us just where he wants us.
Hugh Nibley
#10. Everywhere in science the talk is of winners, patents, pressures, money, no money, the rat race, the lot; things that are so completely alien ... that I no longer know whether I can be classified as a modern scientist or as an example of a beast on the way to extinction.
June Goodfield
#11. You can beat me in the rat race, but remember u still remain a rat.
Reetwika Banerjee
#12. A lot of people live with no apparent means of support. I kind of envy the musicians up there. You're down here, busting your ass in Hollywood, and it's like Lily Tomlin's joke about the rat race - all you prove in the end is that you're a rat.
Kurt Voss
#13. To win the rat race, you have to think and behave like a cat.
Manoj Vaz
#14. Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.
Alice Neel
#15. Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature ... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.
R.D. Laing
#16. In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of that whole MTV craze. I did 'Go Ahead and Rain,' which was Madeleine Stowe's first bit, but felt no connection to it. I went many years where I didn't have to work.
J. D. Souther
#17. While one who sings with his tongue on fire Gargles in the rat race choir Bent out of shape from society's pliers Cares not to come up any higher But rather get you down in the hole That he's in.
Bob Dylan
#18. I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats.
Jerry Nachman
#19. Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#20. If you join the rat race - you're in the race of rats.
Bertolt Brecht
#21. Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown.
Van Morrison
#22. I talk about freedom from the Rat Race, and they focus on toilets. That is the thought pattern that keeps most people poor. They criticize instead of analyze.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#23. The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.
Ivan Illich
#24. Leaving the rat race is easy. All you have to do is quit your job, sell your house, and go and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere. It's staying out of the rat race that's tricky.
Fennel Hudson
#25. It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.
Richard Koch
#26. I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.
Tom Wilson
#27. Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it.
Dewitt Jones
#28. I recommend to young people to seek work for what they will learn, more than what they will earn. Look down the road at what skills they want to acquire before choosing a specific profession and before getting trapped in the Rat Race.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#29. One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.
Bob Dylan
#30. 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.
Anna Quindlen
#31. Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.
Jimmy Reid
#32. Jesus doesn't participate in the rat race. He's into the slower rhythms of life, like abiding, delighting, and dwelling - all words that require us to trust Him with our place and our pace. Words used to describe us being with Him.
Lysa TerKeurst
#33. Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.
Gene Perret
#34. Can't be part of the rat race when you're one of the rats who knows you're in a cage.
Ed Brubaker
#35. The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
#37. The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.
Margaret Halsey
#38. Windows were shakin' all night in my dreams/ Everything was exactly the way that it seems/ Woke up this morning and I looked at the same old page/ Same ol' rat race/ Life in the same ol' cage.
Bob Dylan
#39. You are the part of rat race because you are letting them treat you like a rat. This is the modern definition of a slave.
Saurabh Sharma
#40. It's a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel.
Graydon Carter
#41. It's hopeless, trying to recruit a stranger to help me find someone who's a stranger to him. But then again, we are all strangers to ourselves, caught up in the monotony of daily life, stuck in our routines, never really stopping to think about what will happen to us if we fall off track.
Shannon Mullen
#42. It's not about being a sex prostitute. It's about this power play in the war of the sexes. It's a rat race, like, "I'm in charge," "No, I'm in charge."
Lykke Li
#43. 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.
Jimmy Reid
#45. The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
Daniel Berrigan
#46. Societies need self sacrificing ignorant crowd;
Religions need fearful followers;
Systems need obedient slaves;
Corporate world needs compulsive consumers,
and
I NEED THE COURAGE TO RISE ABOVE THESE FOUR PARASITES.
Saurabh Sharma
#47. Some people that are in charge are usually less intelligent than the people who work under them. The reason why those people are in charge and you aren't is because you have a conscience.
Heather Chapple
#48. In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.
Rat Race, from the album Rastaman Vibration
When one door is closed, many more is open.
Coming in from the Cold, from the album Confrontation
It is better to live on the house top
than to live in a house full of confusion.
Bob Marley
#49. In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values but the rejected rat race, ... it is extremely hard to aim at objective truth or world culture. One's own products are likely to be personal or parochial.
Paul Goodman
#50. The human spirit and self-esteem are compromised when you lay down your arms to the pressures of society in a rat race.
Mayank Sharma
#51. What happened yesterday was obviously a mistake, and it will never be spoken of again. Goodbye forever.
Faith Erin Hicks
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