Gangsters Quotes

“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.”
― Alain Robbe-Grillet, Djinn

“For anyone with a library in their head and love in their heart,”
― Kevin Ansbro, The Fish That Climbed a Tree

“Christmas ought to be brought up to date,” Maria said. “It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.”
― John Masefield, The Box of Delights

“In her mind the U.S. was nothing more and nothing less than a país overrun by gangsters, putas, and no-accounts. Its cities swarmed with machines and industry, as thick with sinvergüencería as Santo Domingo was with heat, a cuco shod in iron, exhaling fumes, with the glittering promise of coin deep in the cold lightless shaft of its eyes.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“There was a ringing in his ears, like a dead phone line that he couldn’t hang up on.”
― Mark Capell, Run, Run, Run

“The Soviets were worried that the Americans would attack their "sparkling new Mir space station, ... in a space shuttle, throw out grappling hooks, forcibly board the peaceful habitat and claim it as captured territory. To the hard-core Soviet mind-set, the American government was an unstable combination of cowboys and gangsters, unpredictable and capable of any insane action. The cosmonauts would have to be armed against outrageous aggression.”
― James Mahaffey, Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder

“To them, kindness was seen as weakness, mercy was perceived as cowardice and negotiation was a code word for a bullet in the head.”
― Neil Walker, Drug Gang Takedown

“Meditation is concentrating the front of the mind with a mundane task so the rest of the mind can find peace.”
― J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake

“Jesse and Frank James were the most well-known military-trained gang members”
― Carter F. Smith, Gangs and the Military: Gangsters, Bikers, and Terrorists with Military Training

“Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemption
For the sins committed before revelation.”
― Carlos Salinas, Got the Flow: The Hip-Hop Diary of a Young Rapper

“When you have to kill to get it, you’re gonna get killed If you keep it. That’s Karma”
― Jordan Hoechlin

“Toast up with the gang and focus more on getting more money stop chasing bitches.”
― Jordan Hoechlin

“Gangsters too have families. They have a wife they return to.”
― Avijeet Das

“I won't let anybody talk to me in different way, accept someone in my family.”
― Jordan Hoechlin

“I would be a gang member in a heartbeat.
If it was to provide meals to those who cannot eat
To give free care to all those who are sick
To take the homeless out of the streets quick
If I could be a voice for those who are scared to speak
And to protect and defend all those who are weak.”
― Ricardo Derose

“Ever hear the expression "never gamble with scared money"?' I nodded. 'They say that because every time you do, you lose. It's that way with us. We win because we're not afraid of the stakes or the consequences. What can they do, put us away for awhile? You know the right people and doing time is like a paid vacation.”
― Jim Cirni, The Kiss Off

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
--Benjamin Franklin”
― Lorenzo Carcaterra, Gangster

“The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
--George Bernard Shaw”
― Lorenzo Carcaterra, Gangster

“A journalist may think he or she is breaking a story, but the journalist is seldom aware of the hidden agenda behind it. Journalists are often used by cops, politicians, gangsters and film stars to propagate their agenda.”
― Jigna Vora, Behind Bars in Byculla: My Days in Prison

“Coming Soon:

Story 1: The Delights of Sean Jr., Gay Urban Stories of a Player’s Lust.”
― Snuggie Bobo

“The armour-plated cars with windows of bullet-proof glass, the murders implicit in Hymie Weiss [1889-1926] phrase 'to take for a ride', the sedans of tommy-gunners spraying the streets of gangland, all created a satanic mythology of the automobile which bid fair to rival the demonism of the saloon. The car was an instrument of death in the hands of the crook and the drunk, and prohibition was held to have spawned both of them.”
― Andrew Sinclair, Prohibition: The Era of Excess

“The gangster is the man of the city, with the city's language and knowledge, with its queer and dishonest skills and its terrible daring, carrying his life in his hands like a placard, like a club... for the gangster there is only the city, he must inhabit it in order to personify it: not the real city, but that dangerous and sad city of the imagination which is so much more important, which is the modern world.”
― Robert Warshow, Gangster Film Reader

“I am a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for.”
― Al Capone

“When Hammett turns to the respectable world, the world of respectable society, of affluence and influence, of open personal and political power, he finds only more of the same. The respectability of respectable American society is as much a fiction and a fraud as the phony respectable society manufactured by the criminals. Indeed, he unwaveringly represents the world of crime as a reproduction in both structure and detail of the modern capitalist society it depends on, preys off, and is part of. He not only continually juxtaposes and connects the ambiguously fictional worlds of art and writing with the fraudulently fictional worlds of society; he connects them, juxtaposes them, and sees them in dizzying and baffling interaction... It is into this bottomlessly equivocal, endlessly fraudulent and brutally acquisitive world that Hammett precipitates the Op.”
― Steven Marcus, The Continental Op

“The Deep State is really just a collection of unaccountable bad actors at the highest levels of the federal bureaucracy, the media, elected office, corporations, and cultural institutions, who abuse the power they have been given and the institutions they were hired to serve in order to protect themselves and manipulate politics in their favor. And they are aided and abetted by staff in the government who are either in on the game or too afraid to speak up.
I regularly used to tell people that the fastest way to move up in the government is to just screw up, and the bigger the screwup, the bigger the promotion. Every person implicated in your mistakes has an interest in covering up what they did, so they will promote you.”
― Kash Pramod Patel, Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy

“Life is hard my crazy boy, but you have to become hardheaded so it can’t f*ck with you.”
― Deanne Dietz, Hearts Etched in Glass

“Sending shivers down my spine and dirty thoughts in my mind.”
― Deanne Dietz, Hearts Etched in Glass

“Always be ready for an attack. Always have a plan. Never be too confident that you aren’t vulnerable. All it takes is one diseased rat to kill a town.”
― Deanne Dietz, Hearts Etched in Glass

“If you are marked. I will be marked with you.”
― Deanne Dietz, Hearts Strengthened by Cyanide

“Sociopath, meet psychopath.”
― Deanne Dietz, Hearts Strengthened by Cyanide