Criminal Ethics Quotes

Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.

What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

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

Swindlers and murderers never agree, for they practice distinct professions

There are clues in the script... he will say "I think drugs are immoral"'... but the guy who says that kills, tortures, pimps and has whores working for him. There is this strange morality going on, which is rather like the Mafia.

Everybody gets pinched but you did it right. You told them nothing and they got nothing. You learned the two greatest things in life: Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.

Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.

He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.

There is honour even among thieves.

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

In The Godfather, for instance, they say they won't deal drugs because they have a code of behaviour. He is the last remnants of that. So playing someone like that, who is also in pain with his kidney stone, means you're beginning to find a dimension of the guy who is king and all show and the private guy who is in pain.