Big Pun Quotes

The Chicago mobs... They practiced their own perverted form of "survival of the fittest." Where the strong clawed their way to the top of a criminal empire. And the weak died in a hail of machine gun bullets.

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.

gangs with no claims whatsoever to legitimacy. They are funded by theft and the basis of all their operations is aggression. They're no more entitled to keep their activities secret than any other gaggle of murderers, rapists and thieves is..

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

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you know, they were no joke. And he was their master carpenter. He used to build their homes, and all I saw when I was 11 years old were dead bodies and tommy guns and stogies, and backrooms, you know, Drexel Wine and Liquor, with the big piles of money underneath.

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.

What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

Never piss off a gangster.

I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella.'

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

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.

… a brutality, cunning and greed for power normally met only in the conclaves of Mafia capi

Who knows what is really going on within a criminal enterprise? Criminals

The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.

If you look at 'The Sopranos,' there's this notion of a criminal element on its last legs.

We'd like to explore the prequel idea. I think it would be best suited as a web series on some digital platform. The prequel will be called 'Rajan Vagaira,' and it will track the rise of Rajan's character in 'Vada Chennai' and how he built his empire.

Jacare is a gangster. He's been in the game for a long time.

In the actual story I got with the Bonannos, but I had dealings with other crime families and other criminals, using the Bonannos as my credibility.

Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.

The internal and international criminal gang will either be forced to work or simply exterminated.

In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse.