And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
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Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.
Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power.
I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.
When you meet powerful men or just read about them in the newspapers, you see that they don't have a sense of boundaries.
One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.
You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you.
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