Quote

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Mario Puzo

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mario Puzo
Age: 78 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 15
Died: 1999
Died: July 2
Author
Diplomat
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Mario Cleri
Mario Gianluigi Puzo
Hands
Block
Men
Intention
People
Fate
Vote
Whose
Qualification
Protect
Placing
Trust
Qualifications
Society
Managed

More quotes by Mario Puzo

Image
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
Mario Puzo
Image
You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.
Mario Puzo
Image
I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.
Mario Puzo
Image
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
Mario Puzo
Image
It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.
Mario Puzo
Image
Any man can turn traitor.
Mario Puzo
Image
Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.
Mario Puzo
Image
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
Mario Puzo
Image
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
Mario Puzo
Image
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
Mario Puzo
Image
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Mario Puzo
Image
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
Mario Puzo
Image
Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.
Mario Puzo
Image
Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.
Mario Puzo
Image
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Mario Puzo
Image
I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.
Mario Puzo
Image
Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
Mario Puzo
Image
Santino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going soft from all that comedy you play with that young girl. Stop it and pay attention to business. Now get out of my sight.
Mario Puzo
Image
You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo
Mario Puzo
Image
We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.
Mario Puzo