Mafia Quotes

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble

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

Communism is as Jewish as the Mafia is Italian. It's a fact that almost all of the convicted spies for communism have been atheist Jews like the Rosenbergs. And international communism was invented by the Jew Karl Marx and has since been led mostly by Jews - like Trotsky.

I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown?

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

No one will ever kill me, they wouldn't dare

It's like the mafia. Once you're in - your in. There's no getting out.

One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One often dies because one does not have the right alliances, because one is not given support. In Sicily the Mafia kills the servants of the State that the State has not been able to protect.

The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.

Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.

Once you're in, you're in. It's like the Mafia. Once a Monkee, always a Monkee.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia...

Work harder, work longer, and earn less because the mafia needs your money.

The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.

When you get to political machines that can control a state, then you're really into organized crime - almost. You're fighting a political mafia.

Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.

There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile.

I'm a big fan of TIËSTO, and SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them.

When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

When I'm back in New York - and this is a terrible thing to complain about - I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I'd like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It's kind of like being in the Mafia.

Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad “Joey”, Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.

Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.

Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there.

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

There is no rule of law until the Mafia needs lawyers.

I am always with London On Da Track, Wheezy, 808 Mafia Mike Will Made It, Ricky Racks.

I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.

Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have.

The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.

I am originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana - mafia.

They's making it worse, the labor movement got the mafia curse.

The myths die hard, especially within the Mafia.

At bottom, I mean profoundly at bottom, the FBI has nothing to do with Communism, it has nothing to do with catching criminals, it has nothing to do with the Mafia, the syndicate, it has nothing to do with trust-busting, it has nothing to do with interstate commerce, it has nothing to do with anything but serving as a church for the mediocre. A high church for the true mediocre.

AARP is a large and powerful organization, similar to the Mafia but more concerned about dietary fiber.

Guilt is the mafia of the mind.

Now everybody is mafia. You got the Russian mafia, the Mexican mafia. Everybody is mafia these days.

The Italian mafia, they're very [into] construction. They're in a whole different way of operating than they did back in the '20s.

The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, et al. ... are as fanatic and as fundamentalist as Osama bin Laden.

There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.

We should not let this be like the history of the mafia which was allowed to grow into a nationwide organization which infiltrated and corrupted so many areas of society for such a long period of time.

What I've called "the Mafia doctrine" in many publications: when the Godfather issues an edict, others must obey, or else. It's too dangerous to allow disobedience. A leading principle of world affairs - though, of course, officials and commentators put it more politely.

When I wrote War Against the Mafia as a Vietnam statement, I didn't expect much to come of it-but quite a bit came and it captured me. I continued the books to feed the obvious hunger that was there for heroic fiction.