Al Capone Quotes


"Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class."
- Al Capone
(Related: Capitalism, Class)

"I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand."
- Al Capone
(Related: Man)

"I don't even know what street Canada is on."
- Al Capone
(Related: Canada)

"I have built my organization upon fear."
- Al Capone
(Related: Fear)

"My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way."
- Al Capone
(Related: American)

"Now I know why tigers eat their young."
- Al Capone
(Related: Now)

"Prohibition has made nothing but trouble."
- Al Capone
(Related: Nothing, Prohibition, Trouble)

"This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it."
- Al Capone
(Related: Opportunity, American, Capitalism, Will)

"When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality."
- Al Capone
(Related: Hospitality, Liquor)

"You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."
- Al Capone
(Related: Word)