Criminal Quotes

Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.

You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

Bolshevism is knocking at our gates, we can't afford to let it in.

..We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away from red literature and red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy.

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror.

Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.

We been on the road for 18 hours... I need a bath, some chow... and then you and me sit down, and we talk about who dies,eh?

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble

I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for

I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

I've lost a million and a half on the horses and dice in the last two years.

And the funny part is, I still like 'em, and if someone handed me another million I'd put it right in the nose of some horse that looked good to me.

When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging.

When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.

Now I know why tigers eat their young.

Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'

I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want.

You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.

Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it.

Anti-Semitism is exactly the same as delousing.

Getting rid of lice is not a question of ideology, it is a matter of cleanliness. In just this same way anti-Semitism for us has not been a question of ideology but a matter of cleanliness.

Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis -- German National Socialism.

We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.

Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up.

There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost.

My honor is my loyalty.

Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.

I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation.

Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

We're having too good a time today. We ain't thinking about tomorrow.

I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.

Power depends ultimately on physical force.

By teaching people that violence is wrong (except, of course, when the system itself uses violence via the police or the military), the system maintains its monopoly on physical force and thus keeps all power in its own hands.

To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.

Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.

From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system.

When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.

Don't lie,Tell one lie,then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first.

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

We will burn the old grass and the new will grow.

Your time will come to follow me Jew

Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

In the course of history periods of capitalism and socialism alternate with one another; capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic system... The National Socialists and the Red Front have the same aspirations. The Jews falsified the Revolution in the form of Marxism and that failed to bring fulfilment.

I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.

If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication.

Once in the racket you're always in it.

Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.

Never trust a woman or an automatic weapon.

Long live Germany. Long live Austria. Long live Argentina. These are the countries with which I have been most closely associated and I shall not forget them. I had to obey the rules of war and my flag. I am ready.

I don't drink much and I smoke very little.

I guess my only bad habit is robbing banks. Now you see, fellas, I ain't such a bad guy at heart.

Let's stick to the practical and the concrete: Would you like it if people lived in a virtual world? If machines were smarter than people? If, in the future, people, animals and plants were products of technology? If you don't like these ideas, then for you the computer and biological sciences clearly are dangerous.

Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust.

I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.