Top 226 Gangs Quotes & Sayings

What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.

Where my earlier works, what sets them apart is that I didn't need approval and I didn't need permission from anyone because I wasn't being paid. So, to me, I was allowed the freedom, the total freedom to just communicate how I wanted to communicate and my whole level of perspective was to communicate to the barrios, communicate to the gangs and communicate to the people that frequent the thoroughfares that were populated by these gangs and by this life style.

"Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others."

I am bored of the 'Gangs of Wasseypur' image.

There's only one thing worse than not paying attention to girls in gangs - it's paying attention to girls in gangs. The public reaction to girls and women who engage in nontraditional behavior - the hysteria that often surrounds girls in these groups - is almost as interesting as the behavior itself.

Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

It's so unfortunate that people have this need to join gangs.

My parents separated before I was 1 year old. I moved in with my aunt and uncle when I was in fourth grade. I was, like, 8 or 9 years old. I was getting in a lot of trouble when I was in Southern California. My older sisters were in gangs. My older brother was in gangs.

I have no complaints from my characters, be it in 'Commando' or 'Gangs of Wasseypur' everyone on those films was grey.

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

My family had been involved in gangs since the 1970s.

Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.

Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.

Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.

Whether it is kids carrying knives because they are in gangs or kids carrying knives because they are afraid of gangs, it is the gang culture that underpins the problem.

We prioritize dialogue, even in our fight with bandits and gangs.

The task of dealing comprehensively with gangs belongs to the city, not to law enforcement.

That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

We [people] all need each other. Gangs do try to fill that void - but they can't do what healthy, balanced, and coherent families and communities can do. Let's strengthen our core relationships from the start - and all the way through a young person's life. This is the best way to avoid the growth of deadly and crime-involved gangs.

When I did 'Gangs,' I didn't have a manager, a PR or stylist.

In fashion, there are so many gangs, if you identify too much with one, you get caught - I would lose my freedom.

I do believe in lessons learned. I have learned that you work with gang members and not with gangs; otherwise, you enforce the cohesion of gangs and supply them oxygen.

There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or anything else that's legal. There are only criminal gangs fighting over territories covering drugs, gambling, prostitution, and other victimless crimes. Making a non-violent activity a crime creates a black market, which attracts criminals and gangs, which turns what was once a relatively harmless activity affecting a small group of people into a widespread epidemic of drug use and gang warfare.

The Hogwarts houses are really gangs. They have their own colours, their own hideouts, and they are always riding for each other, like gangs.

I'm questioning it. We're trying to get a lot of money for health and education and I'm wondering... You look at these gangs, and I look back at Prohibition. When we didn't allow alcohol, what did we have? We had gangs. We had big gangs. It's something that needs to be discussed a little more. It's an economic issue and a violence issue.

I know people in gangs; I could have went down that route.

I love Huma Qureshi. She was amazing in 'Gangs Of Wasseypur.' I also love Richa Chaddha. She played a mother in 'Gangs Of Wasseypur.' And then I saw 'Fukrey' where she played a gangster, and I couldn't believe it was the same girl.

When some of the gangs got involved with the drug trade, particularlythe crack cocaine trade, and the lethal violence started to flare up in the '80s, then there was a great deal of public attention on gangs and a great deal of concern about what was going on in these social groups.

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

Back when I was growing up, gangs wasn't heavy. We was solo thugging. When we got money on our own, the hood got money. It wasn't about colors or a certain name when I was growing up. We wasn't doing no gangs. But as the generations change, things change.

There is one-and only one-way to end the violence in Latin America. There is one-and only one-way to terminate the drug gangs. That way is by legalizing drugs. Legalizing drugs today would put an immediate end to the drug gangs and the drug-war violence.

In 'Gangs of Wasseypur,' I wanted to take violence forward and play it up.

Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.

If you do nothing, that just empowers the gangs.

Homeboy Bakery is an alternative to kids who have found themselves, regrettably, in gangs and want to redirect their lives.

I'm really grateful for 'Gangs... ' but it wouldn't be wrong to say that it was a mixed blessing.

There were gangs in the school I went to. They fought each other constantly.

One of my illest villains was the Butcher from 'Gangs of New York,' Daniel Day-Lewis.

'Kahaani' gave me popularity and 'Gangs of Wasseypur' stardom.

It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad

West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.

The surest way to empower the new terrorist gangs would be to withdraw from U.S. diplomatic missions.

I've written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

I never got into the gangs. Gangs are for followers.

One of the differences between boy gangs and girl gangs is for girls it's much more relational and much less violent.

Gangs are formed by kids who want love.

Even gang members imagine a future that doesnt include gangs.

In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.

When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.

We're trying to challenge the gangs, not by repression, but by competing to get the young people to our side.

Even gang members imagine a future that doesn't include gangs.

Gangs Of Wasseypur' was a confidence booster for me.

I never messed around with gangs.

There were a lot of gangs in high school. Instead of being in a gang, I decided to dance.

In the '60s and '70s, people didn't pay a lot of attention to gangs. I think gangs still existed, but gangs had fallen out of criminological favor.

I didn't have my dad there and I had another mate who didn't have his father, and you kind of form your own little family and that's what gangs are, that's why you have so many gangs now because there are so many kids without fathers that they seek their own male bonding.

Boxing saved my life. There were a lot of gangs and I was hanging around with the wrong people.

Every level of government has a role to play in combating the rise of MS-13 and other gangs, and we must crack down on the aspects of our nation's broken immigration system and other policies that have allowed MS-13 and other gangs to take hold in our communities and stay there.

Whatever understanding I have of filmmaking is because of my stint as an assistant director on 'Gangs of Wasseypur.'