Quotes About Gangsters

Christmas ought to be brought up to date," Maria said. "It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.

Usually when you hear about rappers in Asia, they always try to be like gangsters and stuff like that and I don't get it.

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

Já tinha visto gangsters antes, é claro, mas nunca tinha trabalhado numa casa que era completamente mafiosa, onde acabei por conhecer pessoalmente verdadeiros wise guys, cujos nomes saíam nos jornais. (…) Também não posso dizer que fosse um arranjo desagradável; pelo menos desta vez sabia que os meus cozinheiros iam aparecer para trabalhar todos os dias, porque se não fossem voltavam para a prisão.

I'm tired of Italian gangsters. Not that I don't watch 'The Godfather' every morning when I get up and 'Goodfellas' when I go to sleep at night. But I've just always been fascinated by Russia as a country, by the Russian personality. And now Russia is literally a gangster nation.

What are they trying to do?" Davison asked. "I never heard of anything like this." I took my eyes off Ginger's legs. "Gangsters," I said. "But they've gone out of style," Davison said. "They don't have gangsters any more." "Suppose you go out and tell them that," I said.

Virtue is concerned with what we do, and honour is concerned with how we do it. You can fight a war in an honourable way—the Geneva Convention exists for that very reason—and you can enforce the peace without any honour at all. In its essence, honour is the art of being humble. And gangsters, just like cops, politicians, soldiers, and holy men, are only ever good at what they do if they stay humble.

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.

So if gangsters become governments, does this mean that governments began as gangsters?

One night, someone I hadn't seen before, no doubt one of the club's civilian members who liked the location and thought that rubbing elbows with reputed gangsters made them tougher by osmosis

All at once he feels weary of ganefs and prophets, guns and sacrifices and the infinite gangster weight of God. He's tired of hearing about the promised land and the inevitable bloodshed required for its redemption.

I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano.

How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay?

We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.

Our guys were just playing at being gangsters—the Yugoslavs had been thieving and killing in Europe for real over decades. They were seriously tough, and to this day, if you want to kill somebody in Bulgaria and you want the job done reliably and cheaply, then you hire a Serb. They are the best assassins.

My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes.

Whenever sophistry and rhetoric fail they send in their poor White goons. They don't have the guts of real gangsters. The letters after their names are their tommy guns and those universities where they pour over syllables in the many cubicles, their Big House.

The storyline also changed with the times, and went from Marla Drake held captive by Nazis in the war years, to mad scientists, gangsters and kidnapping after the war. Miss Fury 's adventures were part pulp, part film noir.

It's a lot of real G's doing time/ Cause a groupie bit the truth and told a lie." —TUPAC

And I also think, if you would steal from her, then of course you would lie to me, neither of us means anything to you; perhaps, in your eyes, we are simply luckier gangsters in a world which is run by gangsters.

My mum was a bookies' runner at nine years old and my dad's uncles were Peaky Blinders and gangsters.

Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary.

On the other hand, in his book, The Enemy Within, Bobby Kennedy wrote about his experiences and observations as chief counsel for the McClellan Committee hearings on organized crime and labor unions, saying: "We saw and questioned some of the nation's most notorious gangsters and racketeers. But there was no group that better fits the prototype of the old Al Capone syndicate than Jimmy Hoffa and some of his chief lieutenants in and out of the union." Twentieth

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.