Never Hurt an Innocent/Quotes

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"I'd have been out of here in an hour. And I would have done it without killing anyone who wasn't already dead."
"Protect the innocent". That's weak!
Miguel Bain, Assassins
"Don't get it twisted, I do some dirt, too, but I ain't never put my gun on nobody who wasn't in the game."
Omar Little, The Wire

I dare say it's true I've done some graft in my time, and a good many deals that weren't what you might call modelled on the Sermon on the Mount. But if I smashed people, it was when they were all out to smash me; and if some of 'em were poor, they were the sort that were ready to shoot or knife or blow me to bits.
And I tell you, in my country the whole lot of you would be lynched or tarred and feathered to-morrow, if you talked about lawyers taking away people's land when once they'd got it. Maybe the English climate's different, as you say; but I'm going to see it through.

Enoch Oates, Tales of the Long Bow by G. K. Chesterton