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" The word Mafia stands here for several distinct things. First, it represents a general attitude towards the State and the State's law which is not necessarily any more criminal than the very similar attitude of, let us say, public schoolboys towards their... "
Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful ... - Page 10
by Selwyn Raab - 2014 - 784 pages
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Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th ...

Eric J. Hobsbawm - 1965 - 132 pages
...more criminal than the very similar attitude of, let us say, public schoolboys towards their masters. A mafioso did not invoke State or law in his private...courage, and settled his differences by fighting. He recognized no obligation except those of the code of honour or omerta (manliness), whose chief article...
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