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Meyer Lansky Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“School is too important at your age. Now, I don’t know how fully convinced you are of the importance of learning, but in due time you will realize the importance of school.”
— Meyer Lansky, Meyer Lansky grandson recalls advice, not gangster
Tagged: Education
“When you lose your money, you lose nothing; when you lose your health, you lose something; when you lose your character, you lose everything.”
— Meyer Lansky, Meyer Lansky grandson recalls advice, not gangster
Tagged: Money, Health, Character
“All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here....We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.”
— Meyer Lansky, Soviet American
Tagged: NCAA, Sports, Las Vegas, Gambling
“I was a Jew and I felt for those Jews in Europe who were suffering. They were my brothers.”
— Meyer Lansky
Tagged: Jews, Holocaust
“I am more than anything a Jew, a Russian Jew, he told his friend. I know a communist revolution when I see one, and this is a communist revolution.”
— Meyer Lansky, “HAVANA NOCTURNE”
Tagged: Communism, Cuba
“I have been under surveillance for many years now...maybe for the last 10 years. And I am sure if these men didn't find anything against me who have every resource at its hand, they should know whether I'm in any wrong activities or not.”
— Meyer Lansky, Sandra Lansky says mob boss father treated her like a princess
Tagged: Mafia, Organized Crime, FBI
“They wanted the Nazis taken care of but were afraid to do the job themselves. I did it for them. And when it was over they called me a gangster. No one ever called me a gangster until Rabbi Wise (Stephen Wise) and the Jewish leaders called me that.”
— Meyer Lansky
Tagged: Nazis, Jews, Gangsters
“We got there in the evening and found several hundred people dressed in their brown shirts. The stage was decorated with a swastika and pictures of Hitler. The speakers started ranting. There were only fifteen of us, but we went into action….We attacked them in the hall and threw some of them out the windows. There were fistfights all over the place. Most of the Nazis panicked and ran out. We chased them and beat them up, and some of them were out of action for months. We wanted to teach them a lesson. We wanted to show them that Jews would not always sit back and accept insults.”
— Meyer Lansky
Tagged: Antifa, Nazis, Hitler
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