Top 100 Quotes About Mafia
#1. Cool thing about Fidel Castro is that the CIA and the mafia - which are both terrible organizations that tried to murder him again and again - haven't succeeded.
Ian Svenonius
#2. As one of the founders of Three 6 Mafia, I would like to see the group get back together, you know. But I am definitely thinking about it and would like to see it happen.
Juicy J
#3. Sure," Holden said. "I just needed to feel sorry for myself for a minute. Let's go get killed by the mafia." He
James S.A. Corey
#4. I said, "Is there!" I told him there is a Mafia school where they teach them math - if Johnny has ten fingers and they cut off two, how many does he have left?
Joan Rivers
#5. It's good to be back in New York. I have lived here ten years. I'm originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana: Mafia. But the fact of the matter is where I grew up there was something very similar to the Mafia: 4-H.
Jim Gaffigan
#6. I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants
Dave Beard
#7. Violence, as it is for the mafia and most other criminal organizations, was bad for pirate business. By doing battle with prey, pirates risked damage to their own ships and injury to their crews. It also made them bigger targets for law enforcement.
Robert Kurson
#8. I think one of the ways that these young singers got started is that they would end up in clubs. And a lot of them were mafia owned. And so there was almost an unspoken kind of mafia sponsorship, which is just a very interesting part of that area's music history.
John Lloyd Young
#9. The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head.
Mario Cuomo
#10. International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia.
Noam Chomsky
#11. When I wrote War Against the Mafia as a Vietnam statement, I didn't expect much to come of it-but quite a bit came and it captured me. I continued the books to feed the obvious hunger that was there for heroic fiction.
Don Pendleton
#12. But I also asked why they didn't chase their dreams. How many rock stars just settled for accountancy? How many astronauts grew up to be psychologists? Other kids were playing Mafia Wars, we were taking down the fucking Mafia and no it wasn't normal. It wasn't even close.
Mark Millar
#13. And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue.
Nora Roberts
#14. Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have.
Marlon Brando
#15. I wouldn't be surprised if you were actually the ringleader of an all-girl mafia.
Kiera Cass
#16. Tino laughed with him and then asked, "What the hell is up with you? You acted like I murdered your mother today."
"Not funny." Chuito sobered. "Mafia doesn't get to make jokes about murdering my mother.
Kele Moon
#17. There are allegations actually that he's [Vladimir Putin] associated with real gangsters in the past and that he runs his top circle sort of like a mafia family. But, you know, what is clear is that he seems to prize loyalty above all. He deeply resents anything that he sees as a betrayal.
Corey Flintoff
#18. AARP is a large and powerful organization, similar to the Mafia but more concerned about dietary fiber.
Dave Barry
#19. I felt a little bad about killing the man, but what choice did I have?" ... Louie Morelli, "The Prince of Mafia Princes.
Patricia Bellomo
#20. 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.
Jimmy Hoffa
#21. He said, "You are the russian roulette of my casino."
..and I shot him dead, then and there with my russian roulette.. I am the Goddess of Russian Mafia..
Himmilicious
#22. I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.
James Gandolfini
#23. The closest he got to being Prince Charming was being a Principe della Mafia, but there was nothing remotely romantic about that.
J.M. Darhower
#24. Black Mafia. If they don't understand that, they ain't gangsta. I just watched TV and Bill Parcells kissed two or three of them boys ... it's a Mafia thing.
Lil' Wayne
#25. Mafia guys are all just insecure people who want their money. They're like little seven-year old kids when they don't get their way. I knew guys like that growing up in New Jersey.
Ray Liotta
#26. I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just don't understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness.
Sophie Hannah
#27. A mafia could never kill an alliance. That's how you become safe from the enemy, you befriend them.
Basma Salem
#28. Ultimately, I'd love to see a legacy company that has alumni that come out of it and go on to create other big things. A maple-syrup mafia, a HootSuite mafia.
Ryan Holmes
#29. The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort.
Gerald Celente
#30. But how could a mafioso be forced to commit suicide?" I continued.
It only goes to show," she said, " that there are forces in this society more terrifying than the mafia. Ding Caichen was no match for them."
As to what those " terrifying forces" might be, I couldn't begin to imagine.
Ge Fei
#32. Bring me to the court, and I'll answer all your questions," I would tell the team. "There will be no court!" they would answer. "Are you a Mafia? You kidnap people, lock them up, and blackmail them," I said.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
#33. We don't think only men can be powerful and strong. Behind the heads of the Mafia, the leaders of culture, there are always very strong women. European culture is a matriarchy, especially in the south. The women have a lot of power.
Stefano Gabbana
#34. He's in the mafia, you know."
Jan frowned. "Not everyone who's Italian is in the mafia."
"That may be true in Italy-but here there are hardly enough Italians to run a mafia. They have to belong.
Marshall Thornton
#35. Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we've made a lot of music. Anybody's music can influence anybody. I've heard people say that our music has influenced such and such, and it could be true, and it could not.
Juicy J
#36. In July 1958, Cristoforo Rubino became another informer to fall before testifying against Mafia drug traffickers. A week before he was to testify before a grand jury investigating Vito Genovese and other traffickers, Rubino was shot dead on a Brooklyn sidewalk.98
C. Alexander Hortis
#37. My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me.
Paul Watson
#38. Both the zombie mafia and the rebel zombie alliance could suck my white trash undead ass.
Diana Rowland
#39. When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.
David Chase
#40. The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
Barbara Amiel
#41. Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia does. It's a crime. It's an absolute evil.
Pope Francis
#42. This was the weird part with me and Miller. We both hated each other, but even more than that, he wanted my money and I wanted my notebook back. Neither of us had said anything about it to Stricker, even when we both got suspended. It was like middle school Mafia or something.
James Patterson
#43. It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.
Clive James
#44. It's no problem." Marco shrugged. "You're family."
Her eyes bugged out at me and she whispered comically, "I'm family."
I patted her shoulder. "They're not the Mafia, Liv. Calm down.
Samantha Young
#45. I often talk about the PayPal mafia out of San Francisco, people that were in PayPal and got out of PayPal and continue to reinvest in other start-ups and create a huge pay-it-forward type of network there.
Ryan Holmes
#46. The Italian mafia, they're very [into] construction. They're in a whole different way of operating than they did back in the '20s.
Robert Loggia
#47. The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!
Jerry Seinfeld
#48. A Mafia guy in Vegas gave me this advice: 'Run your own race, put on your blinders.'
Joan Rivers
#49. Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there.
Johnny Kelly
#50. The only other scenario that could explain everything, up to and including your own bizarre apperance, is a convoluted conspiracy theory involving the Russian Mafia and a crack team of plastic surgeons.
Eoin Colfer
#52. Work harder, work longer, and earn less because the mafia needs your money.
Gerald Celente
#53. CosaNostra Pizza doesn't have any competition. Competition goes against the Mafia ethic.
Neal Stephenson
#54. The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business.
Jordan Bridges
#55. It's like the mafia. Once you're in - your in. There's no getting out.
Kelly Slater
#56. Mafia is a process,not a thing.Mafia is a form of clan-cooperation to witch it's individual members pledge lifelong loyalty ... Frienship,connections,family ties,trust,loyalty,obedience-this was the glue that held us together.
Joseph Bonanno
#57. If she screws up this delivery, that means she's double-crossing God, who may or may not exist, and in any case who is capable of forgiveness. The Mafia definitely exists and hews to a higher standard of obedience.
Neal Stephenson
#58. Being a part of the Mafia was like being in a chess game where you had no idea if you were the queen or a pawn, until it was too late, until you lost the entire game or until you won.
Rachel Van Dyken
#59. One thing I would like to see in Vancouver and Canada is something similar to the PayPal mafia. They were all early employees of PayPal. They all had monster exits with PayPal, and they were able to take their winnings and form a syndicate that co-invests.
Ryan Holmes
#60. Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.
Daniel Radcliffe
#61. Forget it. It's on Rob's tab. That he never pays."
Rob shrugged. "Send the gay mafia to collect and I'll pony up."
"I've got my request for assistance in already, but they're kind of busy fighting for our right to join the heteros in the misery of marriage at the moment.
Leta Blake
#62. These 'anthropologists of peace' (who in fact are rather aggressive academics - the ethologist Johan van der Dennen calls them the Peace and Harmony Mafia.
Steven Pinker
#63. I am originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana - mafia.
Jim Gaffigan
#64. It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.
Tim Robbins
#65. My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is.
Louis Gossett Jr.
#66. Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
Steve Allen
#67. 'Shantaram' is fantastic. An Australian prisoner escapes & joins the mafia in India? Sign me up. I love stuff that is based on true stories.
Hasan Minhaj
#68. When you get to political machines that can control a state, then you're really into organized crime - almost. You're fighting a political mafia.
Frank Capra
#69. The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.
Pete Hamill
#70. When I'm back in New York - and this is a terrible thing to complain about - I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I'd like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It's kind of like being in the Mafia.
Anthony Bourdain
#71. There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
Kurt Vonnegut
#72. In all these years, I've always tried to emphasize and to promote the need to combat the Mafia. Because it is a cancer which is oppressive and which stifles everybody's freedom and reduces the possibility for the areas in which it's present to prosper and to develop.
Sergio Mattarella
#73. I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.
Chazz Palminteri
#74. There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.
David Remnick
#75. One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One often dies because one does not have the right alliances, because one is not given support. In Sicily the Mafia kills the servants of the State that the State has not been able to protect.
Giovanni Falcone
#76. The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
Davy Jones
#77. The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?
Yulia Tymoshenko
#78. Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.
Martin Cruz Smith
#79. But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been a long century, and we've had enough of them.
Bruce Sterling
#80. The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, et al ... are as fanatic and as fundamentalist as Osama bin Laden.
William Blum
#81. People say, 'Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.' I think I've done two, out of 60.
James Caan
#82. The old images seem like a caricature now: the shadowy world of secret rituals, the aging dons behind high-walled estates, the passion for vengeance and power over other men. For years, the Mafia was the stuff of novels and movies and whispers on Mulberry Street.
Robert D. McFadden
#83. It would almost need a Mafia-like offer I couldn't refuse to do another movie.
Sean Connery
#84. Whether you're a mafia guy or in advertising, you always end up going back to your family.
Jerry Della Femina
#85. There is no rule of law until the Mafia needs lawyers.
Stephen Holmes
#86. A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
Russell Baker
#87. I put fear into the eyes of a member of the Mafia. I'm doing well, she thought, now keep him scared.
Wendy Ely
#88. When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.
Josef Skvorecky
#89. I bought my wife a little Italian car. A Mafia. It has a hood under the hood.
Henny Youngman
#90. So what is government? ... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such as the Mafia. So to be more precise, government is the agency of coercion that has flags in front of its offices.
Harry Browne
#91. As we Italians say, the husband is like the government at Rome, all pomp; the wife is like the mafia, all power.
Michael Schmicker
#92. Quite generally, international affairs have more than a slight resemblance to the Mafia. The Godfather does not take it lightly when he is crossed, even by a small storekeeper.
Noam Chomsky
#93. The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wears many disguises and has many aliases.
Adrian Rogers
#95. He's a waiter, not a Mafia stooge, so what's he going to do? Blac pepper them to death? Compliment them into a coma? Run them over with the dessert trolley?
Marian Keyes
#96. Everyone always says, Does it bother you that Italians are always portrayed as Mafia characters? No, it doesn't bother me. First of all, not everybody in my family is in the Mafia. I have one uncle who's clean.
Dom Irrera
#97. Home Owner's Association." I said. "They're like the Mafia, but meaner.
Jerry Brandon
#98. It's not okay to send a feeble kid out to fight our battles, and it's not okay to push people around like pawns on a fuckin chessboard and it's not okay giving orders to kill like a Mafia boss.
Stephen King
#99. There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile.
Nelson DeMille
#100. The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.
Davy Jones
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