Top 198 Mafia Quotes & Sayings

The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

Guilt is the mafia of the mind.

Yet there are film stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra who never allowed the mafia to dictate terms to them. But starlets like Monica Bedi used the mafia connection to win stardom and is now paying heavily.

Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket.. .

As for Christianity's alleged concern with truth, Christian faith is to free inquiry what the Mafia is to free enterprise. Christianity may be represented as a competitor in the realm of ideas to be considered on the basis of its merits, but this is mere disguise. Like the Mafia, if Christianity fails to defeat its competition by legitimate means (which is a forgone conclusion), it resorts to strong-arm tactics. Have faith or be damned - this biblical doctrine alone is enough to exclude Christianity from the domain of reason.

Koopsta Knicca, Gangsta Boo, Lord Infamous and Crunchy [Black]. The name of the group is Da Mafia 6iX. So like I said we can't consider it a Three 6 Mafia reunion without all the members of the [group] being in it so we'll just say that it's a reunion of members of the Mafia that created a totally new group called Da Mafia 6iX. [Fans] are going crazy about it on Twitter, they happy as hell, they've been waiting on this for years, some of these members have been gone since 2000, you know, it's 2013.

The myths die hard, especially within the Mafia.

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.

People love stories about the mafia: 'The Godfather,' 'American Gangster.'

The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head.

I like Maroon 5, Swedish House Mafia and others.

A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.

When I came up, one of my favorite groups and producers was Three 6 Mafia.

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

One thing I take great pride in is that my case was the one that started the decline of the Mafia.

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.

The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort.

The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.

Whether you're a mafia guy or in advertising, you always end up going back to your family.

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.

There is no rule of law until the Mafia needs lawyers.

I was Donnie Brasco, the Mafia guy, in character. But in my head, I was a special agent. I never lost sight of who I was or why I was there.

'24' and 20th Century Fox and Sky TV are not responsible for training the U.S. military. It is not our job to do. To me, this is almost as absurd as saying, 'The Sopranos' supports the mafia, and by virtue of that, HBO supports the mafia.'

When you get made into the Mafia, they cut, prick your finger. And they take the blood and put it on the picture of a saint. Then they burn it. That's the Mafia induction ceremony.

The Emanuels are Jewish mafia. It's not that Jews are bad. It's just that they are the head of the Jewish mafia in the United States.

Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.

It's like the mafia. Once you're in - your in. There's no getting out.

I lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem, in Brooklyn... Those neighborhoods were, in those years, dominated by mafia families. You knew it and you felt it, you know?

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.

The Italian mafia, they're very [into] construction. They're in a whole different way of operating than they did back in the '20s.

Just when you thought the mafia novel was dead, Tod Goldberg breathes new life into it. Gangsterland, the best mafia novel in years, is a dark, funny, and smart page-turning crime story. It's also a moving, thoughtful meditation on ethics, religion, family, and a culture that eats itself. I loved this book.

Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.

Russia is a mafia state today, and Putin is its top godfather.

Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have.

I hate 'Mafia Wars'.

I'm a big fan of Tiesto, and Swedish House Mafia are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them.

I grew up in a city, an Italian, knowing what the Mafia was.

Legislating morality doesn't work (see: Prohibition). It produced the Mafia.

The best defence against mafia business is full declaration of assets and incomes.

The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.

People say, 'Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.' I think I've done two, out of 60.

Yo Gotti had some influence on me for sure. I would say Three 6 Mafia, too.

AARP is a large and powerful organization, similar to the Mafia but more concerned about dietary fiber.

I'm a huge fan of mafia history - mostly the Italian mafia but also their associates, as well as Whitey Bulger and the Winter Hill Gang.

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.

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.

I want to start the trans mafia one day.

They's making it worse, the labor movement got the mafia curse.

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

Putin set out to build a mafia state. He didn't set out to build a totalitarian regime. But he was building his mafia state on the ruins of a totalitarian regime. And so we end up with a mafia state and a totalitarian society.

It would almost need a Mafia-like offer I couldn't refuse to do another movie.

The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.

I wasn't aware of it at the time, but I was a big favorite with the Mafia.

Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there.

In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia.

Now everybody is mafia. You got the Russian mafia, the Mexican mafia. Everybody is mafia these days.

Mafia is a process,not a thing. Mafia is a form of clan - cooperation to which it's individual members pledge lifelong loyalty....Friendship, connections, family ties, trust, loyalty, obedience - this was the glue that held us together.

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.

We can learn from this history that when the Department of Justice, the FBI, the DEA, and the state and local police and prosecutors were combined in a task force directed by and at the mafia, when they looked at the mafia and really went after them, they were able to get great, great successes and prosecutions out of them in seizing their business interest, in a lot of things; including their business interest, taking them away, and removing their infiltration from legitimate areas of society.

International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia.