Roberto Calvi Quotes

Dear Mom and Dad, Leave $50,000 in a bag under the bridge on Decatur Street. If there is no bridge on Decatur Street, please build one.

Doctor, feel my purse.

At the opposite pole from the gift is tribute - that is, a grant made out of fear and under threat. A threat is a statement of the form "you do something that I want or I will do something that you do not want.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

It was a mutual thing. I made a deal with them: I asked them if they did not bring out the place card of Malachi, I would let them have two minutes with each one of my patients.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.

I was associated with a woman who I was involved with and had a relationship with. She asked for money. I felt as though I was being blackmailed or there was some sort of extortion.

He made it quite clear that if I didn't play the role, I would be dead within a week. As you can imagine, the guy who turned down Hagrid would be like the guy who called the Beatles a guitar band. So I couldn't possibly refuse, really.

I'm really not good blackmail material.

After the campaign we shall place a list of those who have not paid in the hands of the head of the department you are in.

… a blackmailer and psychopath.

I never authorized any payments for someone to be silent. I did not buy anyone's silence.

If you can't pay your bills, it has a really tough effect on your mental state.

We're going to put Hulu ahead of you, unless you pay up.

Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you.

He that will be surety, shall pay.

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

Blackmailers never explain their thinking. They're like pirates that way. Dark-hearted, dangerous--- and cool like Johnny Depp.

Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.

Last week I was walking by a cemetery, two guys came after me with shovels. It was all about money.

How much do I owe you?

There is no class of people in the world, who have such good memories as creditors.

Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.