Danny DeVito Quotes

The time is always right to do what is right.

Under every stone lurks a politician

That's not to say Eddie's never done anything malicious. But he never grabbed power for power's sake. His position was gained only because he has that energy, and that's naturally where he ended up.

Doing the right thing has power.

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are more bad than good. That you know if you do something, it'll be seized by the rich to exploit the poor.

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

Theodore betrays his friends for his own ambition.

It's them that take advantage that get advantage in this world.

Greed is good.

No one is too young to do the right thing.

I don't think Trump really believes in all this stuff. But he thinks this would be his ticket to the White House - at least to get the Republican nomination.

I don't follow all the 48 laws. Like, I've never crushed anyone totally.

Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.

I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.

I am unknown because I've avoided the limelight so that I could serve. In the case of Donald Trump, he has avoided service so that he could seek the limelight.

'House Of Cards' with Kevin Spacey - I love how it portrays humans in power as just like the rest of us - but even worse.

The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest.