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“We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.”

Money Taken Records Managers Paradise Crooked Gangsters

Author:Robert Wyatt

“Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!”

People States America Lying Land Mines Mountain Rivers Green Plant Endless Ruins Gangsters Racks Stealth

Book:Vintage Hughes

Source: Vintage Hughes

“To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants... Life has become impossible.”

Way Play Used Girl Boys Practice Plans Impossible Used To Be Telling The Truth Pants Organize Gangsters Karate Racket Defenseless Like A Boy

Book:La Maison de Rendez-Vous and Djinn: Two Novels

Source: La Maison de Rendez-Vous and Djinn: Two Novels

“The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.”

Source: The fall

“Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends.”

Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

“Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.”

Mean Hard Bits Figures Complexes Suspects Aunt Gangsters Guessing Jackie

Book:Airhead Book 2: Being Nikki

Source: Airhead Book 2: Being Nikki

“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”

“I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.”

“Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.”

World Law Animal Fire Dying Grew Cat Gangsters Animal World

Author:Stephen King

“I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”

“We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising sea levels and imminent mass extinctions, then raise a disapproving eyebrow when, in response, they dress in black, cut themselves with razors, starve themselves, gorge themselves, or kill one another.”

“He was the class clown, the court jester, because he'd learn early that if you cracked jokes and pretended you weren't scared, you usually didn't get beat up. Even the baddest gangster kids would tolerate you, keep you around for laughs. Plus, humor was a good way to hide the pain”

Ifs Way Kids Pain Class Laughing Beats Jokes Court Scared Plus Tolerate Clown Good Way Cracked Gangsters Jester Court Jester Hiding Pain

Author:Rick Riordan

“Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance. I always leapt at the opportunity to dance in films later on.”

Film Opportunity Hollywood Dance Dancer Gangsters Tap Dance Vaudeville

Author:James Cagney

“Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I`m not the thief who grabs your purse. I`m not the guy who jacks your car. I`m not down with the people who steal and hurt others. I`m just a brother who fight back.”

People Has Beens Guy Fighting Hurt Records Car Brother Let Me Stealing Rapper Thieves Purses Gangsters Street Life

Author:Tupac Shakur

“If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.”

Ifs Said Music Bird Jazz Middle Class Tonight Gangsters

Author:Betty Carter

“Cannabis never killed anybody and it's use is widespread. You can"t stop it. The law defeats itself because all the efforts to stop drugs coming in only drives up the prices and then gangsters move in to push the drugs. If they legalised there wouldn't be gangsters and huge profits...The police are gradually decriminalising the possession of cannabis because they realise there's not much point prosecuting”

Ifs Use Moving Law Effort Huge Drug Police Defeat Profit Possession Realising Weed Marijuana Gangsters Cannabis Prosecuting

Author:James Pickles

“Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!”

Night Military Crime Thousand Revenge Folds Gangsters

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. I'm a bad guy; I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who wins.”

“Real gangster-ass Nerdfighters don't run from nothing... 'cause real gangster-ass Nerdfighters can't run fast.”

Real Running Causes Ass Gangsters Nerdfighter

Author:John Green

“This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.”

Ifs Giving Hands Opportunity Politics History Crime Capitalism Gangsters Great Opportunity Organized Crime Americanism American Capitalism Bootlegging

Author:Al Capone

“Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.”

Play Wanted Grew Grew Up California Farms Agriculture Cowboy Gangsters

Author:Brion James

“Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.”

Knows Writing Believe Wells Lying Artist Yeah Versions Officials Gangsters

Author:Jocko Henderson

“Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.”

Class Capitalism Ruling Mafia Gangsters Racket Bootlegging

Author:Al Capone

“How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?”

Should Looks Culture Black Community Morning Saws Criminals Gangsters Campus Black Community

Author:Tim Reid

“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.”

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Author:Ray Liotta

“The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state.”

Has Beens States Political Effort Media Gangsters Mainstream Media

Author:Michael Pare

“That's basically the gangster code. Just be yourself. Just be you, dog. The easiest way to get your card plucked around a gangster is to be a fake. If we feel like you're trying too hard, if you're trying to act like you're from the street, you're in trouble.”

Ifs Way Feels Trying Hard Trouble Streets Dog Like You Cards Code Fake Being Yourself Be You Gangsters Just Be Yourself Trying Too Hard

Author:Ice T

“The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western”

Form Modern Western Italian Gangsters Gdp Modern Day

Author:Armand Assante

“I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.”

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Author:Bill Cosby

“I felt my country should do more for its children. Its children are not born gangsters. In fact, they have in them the potential to be heroes because most of the kids who are in these gangs are leaders, very charismatic and good organizers.”

Should Children Country Facts Kids Felt Born Leader Hero Gang Gangsters Charismatic Organizer

Author:Azim Khamisa

“If Dr. Mahathir thinks that by ordering the police to act like gangsters he will frighten the people from supporting this reformation movement, he is dreaming. I think he has cut himself off from reality.”

People Ifs Thinking Dream Reality Cutting Movement Police Drs Reformation Gangsters

Author:Wan Azizah Wan Ismail

“I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man.”

Men Faces Fall Focus Risk Fronts Discipline Claims Gym Rats Probability Economist Falling Apart Gangsters Gym Rats

Book:Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.”

Littles Film Comedy Team Cameras Filmmaker Gangsters Mack

Author:Michel Gondry

“All eyes, all attention at the federal level, are on al Qaeda and the war on terror. Fact is, al Qaeda wouldn't last a day in parts of Philadelphia. I've got gangsters with .45s that would run them out of town.”

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Author:Michael Nutter

“I'm not an educated man, but I've read some history. Every kingdom comes up bloody. Every castle is built on a pile of bones. When I came out here, LA was nothing. Back east I was a gangster, out here I'm god.”

Men Built Come Up Bones East Kingdoms Educated Bloody Castles Gangsters Educated Man Kingdom Come

Author:Mickey Cohen

“I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist raised communist educated communist nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America.”

“It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.”

Ought Gangsters Aeroplanes Pistols

Book:The Box of Delights

Source: The Box of Delights

“The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.”

Rooms Entrepreneur Gangsters Gangster Movie

Author:Frank Lucas

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

Kids Used Growing Up Growing Norm Gangsters Snitch

Author:Geoffrey Canada

“We are a democracy and we don't believe in just hunting down gangsters and killing them. We believe in trying to find the gangsters and bring them back for trial, and give them a trial under rule of law. That's what democracies do.”

Giving Trying Believe Law Democracy Killing Don't Believe Trials Hunting Rule Of Law Gangsters

Author:Cornel West

“The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or react to more readily or with quicker intelligence. In ways that we do not easily or willingly define, the gangster speaks for us, expressing that part of the American psyche which rejects the qualities and the demands of modern life, which rejects Americanism itself.”

Way Art Speak Quality Modern Demand Art Is Universal Rejects Modern Life Gangsters Americanism

Author:Robert Warshow

“It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.”

“Everybody needs love. There are a lot of guys that you think are hard-core gangsters, but all these guys' weaknesses are women. Look at the movie Scarface. At the end of the day, all he wanted to do was to have kids with his woman.”

Thinking Needs Looks Ends Hard Kids Wanted Guy Weakness Core The End Of The Day Gangsters Need Love Hard Core Scarface

Author:Master P

“But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated not by evil men or evil peoples, but by quite ordinary men in search of an answer to the baffling problems that beset every society.”

“Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.”

Stills School Funny Young Values Grows Teach Growing Up Television West Educational Poison Gangsters Outlaw Great Educational Wild West

Book:How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide

Source: How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide

“The normal citizen looked at us and saw a mixture of gangster, hippy, criminal and ape. Once somebody rang us up with a nice voice and asked if they could do a feature article on us about how a commune works. They came and asked us questions, took our photos and disappeared. One week later the article appeared and it said: 'This kind of community stinks and if this is the future of Germany then we need Adolf back.'”

Ifs Needs Kind Said Voice Community Saws Nice Week Citizens Normal Criminals Features Germany Collaboration Articles Mixtures Apes Gangsters Stink Communes

Author:Chris Karrer

“I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”

Men Bigs Class Streets Wall Periods Majors Capitalism My Time Muscles Marine Bankers Gangsters Big Business Marine Corps Racket Lieutenants High Class

Author:Smedley Butler

“Some call me a gangster of love”

Call Me Gangsters

Author:Steve Miller

“I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.”

Firsts Book Stories Reading Sides Chance Advantage West Scripts East Take A Chance Gangsters East Side West Side

Author:Edward G. Robinson

“Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.”

Four Hundred Careful Quarters Be Careful Pennies Best Friend Gangsters Fake Friends Inspirational Friendship Choose Wisely True Best Friend Loyal Friend Faithful Friends Choosing Friends Bad Friend

Author:Al Capone

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