Criminals
“Sometimes I feel like God…when I order someone killed—they die the same day.”
—Pablo Escobar
Criminals
“Sometimes I feel like God…when I order someone killed—they die the same day.”
—Pablo Escobar
“I punched my mother out once.”
—Charles Manson
“I like children, they are tasty.”
—Albert Fish, aka the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac, the Boogey Man. He boasted that he “had children in every state.”
“What’s one less person on the face of the earth, anyway?”
“We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow.”
—Ted Bundy, serial killer
“I would cook it, and look at the pictures and masturbate.”
“I’ve got to start eating at home more.”
—Jeffrey Dahmer, aka the Milwaukee Cannibal, serial killer and sex offender
“I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I’ve hated humans for a long time.”
—Aileen Wuornos, serial killer
“The only one that can do what I do is me. Lot of people had to die for me to be me. You wanna be me?”
—Frank Costello, crime boss
“She isn’t missing. She’s at the farm right now.”
—Ed Gein, murderer and grave robber
“Guns are neat little things, aren’t they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort.”
—John W. Hinckley Jr., who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan
“I rob banks for a living, what do you do?”
“All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it’s happened I guess I’m just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.”
“These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don’t make it your last!”
—John Dillinger, gangster
“I will have you removed if you don’t stop. I have a little system of my own.”
—Charles Manson
“When I killed people I had a desire [to kill more]. This inspired me to kill more. I don’t care whether they deserve to live or not. It is none of my concern.”
—Yang Xinhai, serial killer, China
“I felt pleasure, even though when I had killed, the guilt came over me.”
—Luis Garavito, aka the Beast, Colombian rapist and serial killer
“It was only good if I could see her eyes.”
—Pedro Alonso Lopez, aka the Monster of the Andes
“You have to be like a lion and a fox. The fox is smart enough to recognize traps, and the lion is strong enough to scare away the wolves. Be like a lion and a fox, and no one will ever beat you.”
—Carlo “Don Carlo” Gambino, Italian-born American gangster
“There can only be one king.”
“I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.”
—Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord
“Weapons are an extension of my body. Like my arms. I learned that at training camp in the Bekaa Plain. I also learned that to kill, you have to act fast and aim straight at the nose.”
—Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, aka Carlos the Jackal, Venezuelan-born international terrorist
“I supply more heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana than anybody else in the world. I have a fleet of submarines, airplanes, trucks, and boats.”
—Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman
“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.”
“I got nothing against the honest cop on the beat, the kind you can’t buy. You just have to have them transferred someplace where they can’t do you any harm.”
“I’m a kind person, I’m kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you’ll remember me for.”
“Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.”
“We been on the road for 18 hours...I need a bath, some chow...and then you and me sit down, and we talk about who dies, eh?”
“Now I know why tigers eat their young.”
—Al Capone, gangster
“There is nothing wrong with Mr. Kraft’s mind other than that he likes killing for sexual satisfaction.”
—Prosecution for Randy Kraft, serial killer
“What I did was not for sexual pleasure. Rather it brought me some peace of mind.”
—Andrei Chikatilo, aka the Maniac, Russian serial killer
“We love death. The US loves life. That is the difference between us two.”
“We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah.”
—Osama bin Laden
“My mother was cancer. She slowly destroyed everything around her. She produced two killers; me and my brother Joe.”
—Richard “Iceman” Kuklinski
“Gun control? It’s the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. I’m a bad guy; I’m alwaysgonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I’ll pull the trigger. We’ll see who wins.”
“Never open your mouth, unless you’re in the dentist chair.”
“I loved the Godfather. I thought that was the best interpretation of our life that I’ve ever seen. Godfather I and Godfather II—the other one stunk.”
—Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, former underboss of the Gambino crime family
“We took care of Kennedy.”
—Salvatore “Mooney Sam” Giancana, better known as Sam Giancana, Sicilian American mobster
“Assassin?...That sounds so exotic...I was just a murderer.”
—Richard “Iceman” Kuklinski, American contract killer, known for his method of freezing a victim to mask the time of death
“May your wife and children get raped, right in the ass.”
—Aileen Wuornos, serial killer, to the jurors who convicted her
“I was raised to be a rugged, strong-minded hustling type of woman so you can throw me in this concrete jungle with nothing and I’ll still come out fed with a lion on my back.”
—Griselda Blanco, aka the Black Widow