Bertrand Russell Quotes

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

I know nothing of what it is to be a gangster.

I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot.

I have made only two films on the underworld. I am not educating the people on the underworld.

Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power.

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.

You look at the descriptions of Whitey by law enforcement during his early years, and they sum him up pretty well. He was the same guy 40 years later; he just had $40 million more, and had committed 40 more murders.

I think we have always had a fascination for gangs and gangsters, and I think we always will.

I have always been against the gangster as hero.

Folks who think organised crime is a thing of the past are only kidding themselves.

What I learned about the mob wasn't through lectures at the academy.

My family had been involved in gangs since the 1970s.

And Alpo ordered guys to slaughter guys, and the whole Harlem was in tears when Rich Porter died.

He [Donald Trump] is like - he's a magnet for crime and extortion and, you know, just really criminal investments which are extremely dangerous.

In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

I have such an image of a mafioso.

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

I don't know whether crime is dictating business or business is dictating crime.

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

I rob banks for a living, what do you do?

There is no such thing as the worst gang because they're all pretty bad. It is very difficult to classify them in terms of who is worse than the other because they all have pretty bad things associated with them.

People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.

I would like to be a gang leader on 'Sons of Anarchy' or own a lemonade stand on 'Boardwalk Empire.'

Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals.