You tell yourself, “I’ll just do this one bad thing. All the good things I’ll do later will make up for it.” But they don’t.
You can’t have organized crime without law and order.
We’re disappearing. You got to be like smoke. Smoke doesn’t make phone calls.
War is just politics by other means.
There are people you go after and people you don’t.
Sometimes in war you got to do a bad thing to do good.
Somebody takes a cop’s gun, you shoot him. That’s basic.
Somebody gives you a free shot, you got to make it count.
Out there on the streets, it’s not enough to be strong. You gotta be mean. Gotta be ruthless.
Nobody looks for a dead man.
Men who are about to die are very honest. It pays to listen to them.
Look it, Jim, it’s not like I can order you to break the law, but this is Gotham. You don’t bend, you’ll get broke.