Al Capone citáty

„Vypadá to, že jsem zodpovědný za každý zločin, který se v této zemi odehrává.“

—  Al Capone

„Jsem laskavý člověk, jsem laskavý ke všem, ale jestli ke mně nebudeš laskavý, pak bude laskavost poslední věc na kterou si vzpomeneš.“

—  Al Capone

Zdroj: www.azquotes.com

„S úsměvem můžete dojít daleko. Ještě dále můžete dojít s úsměvem a zbraní.“

—  Al Capone

„Jsem podnikatel. Vydělal jsem své peníze reagováním populární poptávku. Pokud poruším zákon, jsou moji zákazníci stejně vinní jako já.“

—  Al Capone

„I'm a businessman. I've made my money supplying a popular demand. If I break the law, my customers are as guilty as I am.“

—  Al Capone

„It seems like I'm responsible for every crime that takes place in this country.“

—  Al Capone

„I'll go as deep in my pockets as any man to help any guy that needs help. I can't stand to see anybody hungry or cold or helpless.“

—  Al Capone

„You'd be surprised if you knew some of the fellows I've got to take care of.“

—  Al Capone

„I'm tired of gang murders and gang shootings. It's a tough life to lead. You fear death at every moment, and worse than death, you fear the rats of the game who'd run around and tell the police if you don't constantly satisfy them with money and favors.“

—  Al Capone

„You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.“

—  Al Capone

Misquoted in Forbes (6 October 1986), actually attributed to humorist Professor Irwin Corey (1953) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/11/03/kind-gun/
Disputed
Varianta: You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

„People who respect nothing dread fear. It is upon fear, therefore, that I have built up my organization. But understand me correctly, please. Those who work with me are afraid of nothing. Those who work for me are kept faithful, not so much because of their pay as because they know what might be done with them if they broke faith.“

—  Al Capone

„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.“

—  Al Capone

As quoted in How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) by Dale Carnegie, p. 26

„Do I do business with Canadian racketeers? I don't even know what street Canada is on.“

—  Al Capone

As quoted in Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada (2009) by Stephen Schneider, chapter Five, p. 206 http://books.google.bg/books?id=ZO8jKSn25DAC&printsec=frontcover&hl=bg

„I violate the Prohibition law, sure, Who doesn't? The only difference is that I take more chances than the man who drinks a cocktail before dinner and a flock of highballs after it.“

—  Al Capone

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

—  Al Capone

The Bootleggers

„This is virgin territory out here for whorehouses.“

—  Al Capone

Referring to suburban Chicago, as quoted in The Bootleggers and Their Era (1961) by Kenneth Alsop

„Don't get the idea that I'm one of these goddamn radicals. Don't get the idea that I'm knocking the American system.“

—  Al Capone

As quoted in In Time of Trouble (1956) by Claud Cockburn

„This American system of ours … call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.“

—  Al Capone

Interview with Claud Cockburn, as quoted in “Mr. Capone, Philosopher,” Cockburn Sums Up (1981)

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

—  Al Capone

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