"I don't think I like people very much, Mr. Taggart. Not most of them."
"I don't either. Not any of them."
"I thought a man like you - you wouldn't know how mean they can be and how they try to step on you and ride on your back, if you let them. I thought the big men in the world could get away from them and not have to be flea-bait all of the time, but maybe I was wrong."
"What do you mean flea-bait?"
"Oh, it's just something I tell myself when things get tough - that I've got to beat my way out to where I won't feel like I'm flea-bitten all the time by all kinds of lousiness - but maybe it's the same anywhere, only the fleas get bigger."
"Much bigger."
- Atlas Shrugged, By Ayn Rand, pg 229
"I don't either. Not any of them."
"I thought a man like you - you wouldn't know how mean they can be and how they try to step on you and ride on your back, if you let them. I thought the big men in the world could get away from them and not have to be flea-bait all of the time, but maybe I was wrong."
"What do you mean flea-bait?"
"Oh, it's just something I tell myself when things get tough - that I've got to beat my way out to where I won't feel like I'm flea-bitten all the time by all kinds of lousiness - but maybe it's the same anywhere, only the fleas get bigger."
"Much bigger."
- Atlas Shrugged, By Ayn Rand, pg 229