35 Quotes by Abraham Polonsky

What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.

Today in Germany, everyone is being watched--even the watchers.

Kids win this'n'that every day. Thousands of them. One out of a hundred fights professionally. One out of a thousand's worth watchin', one out of a million's worth coffee and doughnuts.

This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars--an excitingday in a man's life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.

I don't take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!

It's perversion. Don't you see what it is? It's not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that's natural. To reach out to take it, that's human, that's natural. But to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking. Don't you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?

I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.

Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.

Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?