THE CRIME BOOK ~ A SENTENCE MEME
PART FOUR ~ ORGANISED CRIME.
“ The most hazardous of all trades, that of the smuggler. ”
“ They are so immensely rich that they bribe ye private men… who at this time harbour the outlawed persons in their houses and are the support of the whole affair. ”
“ In Sicily there is a sect of thieves. ”
“ My name is ____ and I will make people die! Crime must vanish just as this dust carried away by the wind vanishes! ”
“ We are at war… The Mafiosi are firing with machine guns and TNT. We can only hit back with words. There are thousands of them and only a few hundred of us. ”
“ No one should provide the police or judiciary with facts that help uncover any crime whatsoever. ”
“ They dare do anything. ”
“ I like to describe organised crime as the flu virus because they’re constantly mutating. ”
“ No more villainous, ruffianly band was ever organized. ”
“ Sheriffs and deputies he regards with pity and contempt. He / She is a power unto him / herself. ”
“ Prohibition has made nothing but trouble. ”
“ When I sell liquor, it’s called bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it’s called hospitality. ”
“ If the boss says a passing crow is white, you must agree. ”
“ Once you make a pledge to the gang, the only way out is to cut off your fingers. ”
“ Mobs are legal entities here. Their fan magazines and comic books are sold in convenience stores, and bosses socialize with prime ministers and politicians. ”
“ To get your whole body tattooed, you need endurance. ”
“ When we do right, nobody remembers. When we do wrong, nobody forgets. ”
“ The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions. ”
“ In the sixties we got a lot of publicity. It was all fun and games. In the seventies we all became gangsters. ”
“ They were the best years of our lives. ”
“ He / She is evil… in the nicest possible way. Evil people sometimes are. ”
“ All empires are created of blood and fire. ”
“ Sometimes I am God, if I say a man dies, he dies that same day. ”
“ It was always about business, never about gangs. ”
“ If there was one outlaw capitalist most responsible for flooding Los Angeles streets with mass-marketed cocaine, their name was ___. ”
“ Good people do bad things when there are no options. ”
