Robert Kurson Quotes

I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.

Where there is a sea there are pirates.

Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or government. When they went missing or sunk, nobody went looking for them. They simply disappeared into the ether.

There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

They can lie under the land and upon observing a vessel or two unguarded dart upon them suddenly and carry them off even in sight of the King’s ships.

Pirates worked to avoid violence and fighting.

The more I learned about real pirates, the more exciting they seemed to me. They appeared to be even more dramatic than pirates of the movies or TV shows.

If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

Members of organized crime continue to exploit their victims the old-fashioned way - through violence, threats and intimidation. As law enforcement has so successfully done before, we will employ our own time-tested techniques to bring them to justice to account for their crimes.

There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered.

I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.

In Sicily the Mafia kills the servants of the State that the State has not been able to protect.

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..

The can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money.

Wholesale Murder on the High Seas

Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.

Belize is still a pirate haven and is run more or less along the lines established centuries ago by the likes of Captain Morgan, Blackbeard, and Captain Barrow.

When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there's no recourse to law, so there's only recourse to violence.

Pirates, me hearties, are the Patronus of the freelancer.

Pirate was going to be my middle name, but then my uncle had a problem with it because pirates are bad.

Once you discover that real pirates are more interesting than fictional ones, you can't look away.

The FBI was formed because the gangsters were better armed, better financed.

I do a lot of lecturing, at colleges and police schools, and I always get the same questions: 'Do they really kill you? What do they do with the money? How do you become a wiseguy?'

I know these dirty cops that'll get us in if we murder some Wop.

The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other. That was friendship enough in this world, all that was needed.