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Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others - with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means. – Henry Grady Weaver	added by Normando 5 months ago
The respect for the [original gangsters], the respect for … those who [have] ‘been there, done that,’ it just seems like that respect level is just out the window. – Ethan Swope/Getty Images	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It’s a nonsense 'feel good’ rule that only burdens good people but does nothing to stop violent criminals and gangsters from obtaining guns, this is just one more pathetic gun control ploy from Joe Biden as he bows down to the Gun Control Lobby and their unlawful schemes to destroy the Second Amendment. – President Dudley Brownsaid	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I didn't fully appreciate this in my early days as a judge, i'd spent 10 years bringing to justice gangsters -- most of them for murders. – John Gleeson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I'd spent 10 years bringing to justice gangsters -- most of them for murders. – John Gleeson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is a feel-good show that honors a very underserved group of people and shows their humanity, that not all blacks and Latinos are drug dealers and gangsters, despite what some presidential candidates might say. – Kathleen Gallegos	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Ten years ago we still associated tattoos with bad people or gangsters. People who wanted to get one were afraid of discrimination from society, but tattoo culture is well accepted by Chinese people these days, especially in Beijing, Shanghai or Guangzhou. – Liao Lijia	Found on CNN 8 years ago
If you are a high profile inmate, you are at risk because the other inmates and the gangsters within the correctional services will target you. – Murasiet Mentoor	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Playing gangsters is great, they usually dress you sharp. And you have a license to pretty much bully anybody. I mean, I wouldn't dare do that at home. My wife will give me a back hander. – Alex Rocco	Found on CNN 8 years ago
They act like gangsters and we are afraid of that, but the most important thing is that they have to take care of the people and provide us with security. – Yassin Ahmed	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
In the beginning, people liked Islamic State because they had been suffering, we too wanted change, but not in this destructive way. We see now that they are criminals, gangsters, destroyers. – Ali Ibrahim	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc. – Henry Miller	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. – Stanley Kubrick	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others - with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means.

– Henry Grady Weaver

added by Normando
5 months ago

The respect for the [original gangsters], the respect for … those who [have] ‘been there, done that,’ it just seems like that respect level is just out the window.

– Ethan Swope/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s a nonsense 'feel good’ rule that only burdens good people but does nothing to stop violent criminals and gangsters from obtaining guns, this is just one more pathetic gun control ploy from Joe Biden as he bows down to the Gun Control Lobby and their unlawful schemes to destroy the Second Amendment.

– President Dudley Brownsaid

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I didn't fully appreciate this in my early days as a judge, i'd spent 10 years bringing to justice gangsters -- most of them for murders.

– John Gleeson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I'd spent 10 years bringing to justice gangsters -- most of them for murders.

– John Gleeson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This is a feel-good show that honors a very underserved group of people and shows their humanity, that not all blacks and Latinos are drug dealers and gangsters, despite what some presidential candidates might say.

– Kathleen Gallegos

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Ten years ago we still associated tattoos with bad people or gangsters. People who wanted to get one were afraid of discrimination from society, but tattoo culture is well accepted by Chinese people these days, especially in Beijing, Shanghai or Guangzhou.

– Liao Lijia

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If you are a high profile inmate, you are at risk because the other inmates and the gangsters within the correctional services will target you.

– Murasiet Mentoor

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Playing gangsters is great, they usually dress you sharp. And you have a license to pretty much bully anybody. I mean, I wouldn't dare do that at home. My wife will give me a back hander.

– Alex Rocco

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They act like gangsters and we are afraid of that, but the most important thing is that they have to take care of the people and provide us with security.

– Yassin Ahmed

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

In the beginning, people liked Islamic State because they had been suffering, we too wanted change, but not in this destructive way. We see now that they are criminals, gangsters, destroyers.

– Ali Ibrahim

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

– Henry Miller

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

– Stanley Kubrick

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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