Mafia Quotes - Page 3

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

  David Remnick

  Party, World, Communist

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• 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.

  David Remnick

  Russia, Class, World

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Angel, Evil, Triumph

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• Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash.

  Robert De Niro

  Running, Vegas, Car

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• 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.

  Donald Trump

  Organization, Long, Should

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2016.

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• Laws never protect anyone, despite claiming to be all about protecting the public. Each legal restriction only strengthens the power of mafia and crime organising who step in to help people do what the law says they can't do, in every country.

  Terre Thaemlitz

  Country, Law, People

  "How Japan's New Nightclub Laws Threaten to Decimate Their Club Culture". Interview with Jonny Coleman, pitchfork.com. September 10, 2015.

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• There's no real nationalism in this county. If you're poor in America, that's a criminal offense. You're not only a criminal for being poor, but you're also stupid and deficient. We don't have this national feeling of fraternity. We live in an individualist state where everyone hates everyone else, except your immediate family. We live in a mafia state.

  Ian Svenonius

  Real, Stupid, Hate

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.

  Chazz Palminteri

  Italian, Russian Mafia, Italian American

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• It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.

  Tim Robbins

  Father, Kids, Guy

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Issues, Principles, Doctrine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I was researching some of the modern-day figures that The Sopranos were moulded on. So many iconic Sopranos moments. James Gandolfini and Edie Falco had an incredible scene together in the kitchen of that house that looked like it was about to explode. That was an iconic series that changed the way we did television. It is also an extremely realistic portrayal of the mafia. Much more so than The Godfather. The Godfather, one of the greatest films ever, but let's face it, a romanticized version of the mob.

  Don Winslow

  House, Kitchen, Together

  "American crime writer Don Winslow on guns, politics, drugs, and the police". Interview with Alexander Bisley, www.macleans.ca. July 4, 2017.

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• A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Princess, School, Years

  Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. November 17, 2008.

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• Monsters, among other brutes, are the ones without guilt feelings. Perhaps Hitler did not have any, or Himmler, or Stalin. Maybe Mafia bosses do not have any guilt feelings either, or maybe their remains are just well hidden in the cellar. Even aborted guilt feelings...All men need guilt feelings.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Boss, Feelings

  Pope Benedict XVI (2006). “On conscience: two essays”, Natl Catholic Bioethics Center

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• You don't need to buy a $7 billion company to penetrate maritime security. The Mafia doesn't buy FedEx to smuggle.

  James Carafano

  Needs, Billions, Company

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• I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape.

  Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.

  Book, Reading, Prison Time

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• I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican,' but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.

  James Gandolfini

  Character, Men, Play

  "James Gandolfini in His Own Words" by Christopher Rosa, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2013.

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• It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.

  Clive James

  Sports, Men, Thinking

  "Falling Towards England". Book by Clive James, 1985.

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

  Dave Barry

  Powerful, Organization, Fiber

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• 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.

  Yelawolf

  Rocks, Atlanta, Firsts

  Interview with Anthony Centeno, www.vibe.com. July 29, 2013.

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• Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Party, Russia, Government

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• In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what does it matter, as long as he puts his garbage out on Tuesdays?

  Hal Higdon

  Running, Distance, Men

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• In my real life, both my bosses are gay. On the 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' Andy Cohen is gay, everybody at Bravo is gay - we call them the gay mafia. Over at 'Glee' and 'The New Normal,' my boss Ryan Murphy is gay. On the show, my boss, played by Andrew Reynolds, is gay in real life. I'm surrounded by all my gay bosses.

  NeNe Leakes

  Real, Gay, Atlanta

  "EXCLUSIVE: NeNe Leakes on 'The New Normal,' Gay Rights and Her 'Glam-Baby'". Interview with Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. September 11, 2012.

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

  Robert Loggia

  Italian, Way, Different

  Interview with AVC, film.avclub.com. September 8, 2011.

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• The Mafia has higher standards than the Catholic Church hierachy because if their members were "raping children, they'd off them."

  Ernie Chambers

  Children, Catholic, Church

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• Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country [Afghanistan] is dominated by drug economy and a mafia; textbook economics does not work in my context.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Motivation, Inspiration

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