Gotta go out and get the rent pay, So I'ma be out here on this block, with these rocks, and this Glock, until I profit could you stop it? Mama used to say "but until I see a better day, it got to be this way"
— Can't Hustle Forever, Anthony Henderson, a.k.a. Krayzie Bone of the rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
This album is dedicated to all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothin', to all the people that lived above the buildings that I was hustlin' in front of that called the police on me when I was just tryin' to make some money to feed my daughters, and all the niggas' in the struggle, 'you know what I'm sayin'?
— Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G.
See I was born in the ghetto/ man I was raised in the hood/ unless you've lived it yourself/ it just can't be understood/ people think hustling is cool, or hustling is live/ they don't understand hustlers only hustling to survive/ They wish they lived in the 'burbs/ wish they didn't have to hang/ out in corners in low income housing projects and slang/ They wished their daddies were home, mama wasn't on drugs/ and they didn't have to grow up to be dealers and thugs...
— Bernard "Bun-B" Freeman of UGK
Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat, tell you all about it when I got the time!
— Aladdin in One Jump Ahead
Back then, he simply didn't have the luxury to distinguish good and evil.
— Baccano! 1930 - The Rolling Bootlegs
Walt: I have made a series of very bad decisions and I cannot make another one.
Gus: Why did you make these decisions?
Walt: For the good of my family.
Gus: Then they weren't bad decisions. What does a man do, Walter? A man provides for his family.
Gus: Why did you make these decisions?
Walt: For the good of my family.
Gus: Then they weren't bad decisions. What does a man do, Walter? A man provides for his family.
— Breaking Bad, Mas
"I could give you kids a sad song and dance about how nobody wants to hire you when you look like a monster, but the truth is I didn't need much of an excuse to get into this life. I like to fight. I always have. A job as a supervillain let me trade punches with the toughest men and women on the planet."
"People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving"
— Proverbs chapter 6 verse 30, The Bible, New International Version
Yeah. And I'm not like any other criminal. I steal things that we need to survive.
Mr. Freeze: I'm not in organized crime. I'm actually trying to find a cure for my wife's terminal illness.
The Penguin: And how are you funding that?
Mr. Freeze: Uh… through organized crime.
The Penguin: And how are you funding that?
Mr. Freeze: Uh… through organized crime.
"They were orphans. Pickpockets. Barely noticed by peasant or noble. So they took what they had to and bore scars when they failed to do so. All they had was the clothes on their backs and whatever they could find."
— The Night Unfurls, Chapter 4: Apprentice
