"'What I was wonderin', Chief, are you biding your time towards the day you decide to lay into them?' 

'No,' I told him. 'I couldn't.' 

'Couldn't tell them off? It's easier than you think.' 

'You're... lot bigger, tougher'n I am,' I mumbled.  

'How's that? I didn't get you, Chief.' 

I worked some spit down in my throat. 'You are bigger and tougher than I am. You can do it.' 

'Me? Are you kidding? Criminy, look at you; you stand a head taller'n any man on the ward. There ain't a man here you couldn't turn every way but loose, and that's a fact!' 

'No. I'm way too little. I used to be big, but not no more. You're twice the size of me.'"

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey