I'll make you an offer you can't refuse

Bill Livant

pp. 83-84

in: Bertell Ollman, Tony Smith (eds), Dialectics for the new century, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Abstract

In all the gangster movies I saw as a kid, there was always a moment when one of the gangsters said, "I"ll make you an offer you can't refuse." My reaction was to smile, just as I"m sure you did when you saw The Godfather and other movies like it.