Cosa Nostra Quotes

“I am not admitting to anything, i am just telling you.”
― Michael Franzese

“In that moment, something else occurred to me: The “leader of the free world,” the self-described great business tycoon, didn’t understand leadership. Ethical leaders never ask for loyalty. Those leading through fear – like a Cosa Nostra boss- require personal loyalty. Ethical leaders care deeply about those they lead, and offer them honesty and decency, commitment and their own sacrifice. They have a confidence that breeds humility. Ethical leaders know their own talent but fear their own limitations-to understand and reason, to see the world as it is and not as they wish it to be. They speak the truth and know that making wise decisions requires people to tell them the truth. And to get that truth, they create an environment of high standards and deep consideration – “love” is not too strong a word – that builds lasting bonds and makes extraordinary achievement possible. It would never occur to an ethical leader to ask for loyalty.”
― James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

“Man is the hardest animal to kill, when you kill a man, your hands shake, your eyes twitch, your heart flutters, but you kill non the less.”
― Salvatore Maranzano

“Sometimes, in the affairs of man, you try to control by force, and if that does not succeed, then you have to control by being a brute.”
― Joseph Bonanno

“Once you fight, to survive and to protect your life, make sure that you succeed.”
― Joseph Bonanno

“I went more than the respectable way, i went the honorable way.”
― Joseph Bonanno

“In our life, you didn’t have a crime, and then they go investigate it, they were investigating you, to see what crime you might commit.”
― Michael Franzese, Mafia Democracy: How Our Republic Became a Mob Racket

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