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“Behind the facade of elected government are a bunch of corporate controlled gangsters running the country.”
― Steven Magee

“When you understand the mechanincs of stress and master the techniques to manipulate someone's fears and dreams, you will be powerful.”
― Gregory Hartley

“Also, gasping is for damsels, and I'm a gangster.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love

“The way the kids of immigrants heard about America, you would think it was not down the stairs and out the door but still across the ocean, a distant place where everything is promised and, for hard work, everything is given. From the day he left his parents' house, Abe [Reles] had to know his father was right, that America promises everything, but he also had to know his father was wrong--America gives nothing. Those things that are promised, they cannot be worked for but must be taken, conned away with good looks, obsequiousness, mimicry; or traded for with bit of your soul or the morals of the stories your parents told; or tricked away with lies; or wrested away with brute force.”
― Rich Cohen, Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams

“It's always better to like a gangster from a distance anyway. Like a tiger cub in a cage. They always look soft and cute and warm behind those iron bars. Everybody's happy, smilimg, waving, taking pictures. But you take away those bars and all that goes away. All that's left is the fear.”
― Lorenzo Carcaterra, Gangster

“A true gangster can smell out a person's strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of fear.”
― Lorenzo Carcaterra, Gangster

“No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.”
― Lorenzo Carcaterra, Gangster

“The older you get, the deadlier you have to be and you use age to your advantage. You make it a strenght. Most of us are more dangerous the longer we live. If we didn't care about dying when we were young, we're not going to be too concerned about it when we have two feet in our grave.”
― Lorenzo Carcaterra, Gangster

“If the Eagle Scouts had some sort of Sith equivalent, Marcone was it.”
― Jim Butcher, Ghost Story

“A gangster must always be prepared to kill a friend. It is one of the many open secrets of the business, since it is the truest test of his ability to rule and command the respect of his crew. To eliminate a sworn enemy requires little more than opportunity, luck and the willingness to pull a trigger. But to end the life of someone once considered close, regardless of any previous betrayal, requires a determination that few men possess.”
― Lorenzo Carcaterra, Gangster

“Gangsters live for the action. The closer to death, the nearer to the heated coil of the moment, the more alive they feel. Most would rather succumb to a barrage of bullets from a roomful of sworn enemies than to the debilitation of old age, dying the death of the feeble. A gangster becomes as addicted to the thrill of the battle and the potential to die in the midst of it as he does to he more attractive lures in his path. In his world, the potential for death exists every day. The better gangsters don't shy away from such a dreaded possibility but rather find comfort in its proximity.”
― Lorenzo Carcaterra, Gangster

“She moved to get up, but the man held her down as her car exploded next.
Bree lifted her head and looked back at the wall of fire behind them. “Well. We’re well and truly screwed now.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta

“He had no tolerance for acts of betrayal or cruelty and lacked Angelo's taste for the minute details of a business deal. He was a man totally in the moment, who knew only to respond to the action with an action. He was a pure gangster.”
― Lorenzo Carcaterra, Gangster

“She was not alone in her respect for him. Because he is more than a boss to people. He’s a religion for non-believers.”
― Carla H Krueger, The Social Worker

“For those of you that truly believe there's no such thing as the mafiya, I would be more than happy to sell you your own fast lane on the Belt Parkway, you know, so you can avoid the rush hour commute. The mafiya is real as a heart attack and, contrary to popular consensus, has been steadily growing in power since its inception in the 1920s. Italian organized crime just doesn't operate out in the open anymore, former mayor Rudy made sure of that.”
― Gary "Gunz" Govich, Career Criminal: My Life in the Russian Mob Until the Day I Died