Rats were the cause of the bubonic plague, but that's some time ago.
6 seconds sound clip from the Inglourious Basterds movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:15:13 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- But where our conclusions differ, is I don't consider the comparison an insult.
- Consider for a moment the world a rat lives in. It's a hostile world, indeed.
- If a rat were to scamper through your front door, right now, would you greet it with hostility?
- Has a rat ever done anything to you to create this animosity you feel toward them?
- Rats spread disease. They bite people.
- Rats were the cause of the bubonic plague, but that's some time ago.
- I propose to you any disease a rat could spread, a squirrel could equally carry. Would you agree?
- Oui.
- Yet, I assume you don't share the same animosity with squirrels that you do with rats, do you?
- No.
- It's an interesting thought, Herr Colonel.
- However interesting as the thought may be, it makes not one bit of difference to how you feel.
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