Critical Quote by Henry Adams

The proud and arrogant man is surrounded by enemies, but the kind hearted man attracts valuable friends.

— Ore Abayomi

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

— Richard M. Nixon

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to…

— Diogenes

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness…

— Joseph Conrad

A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.

— Mike Tyson

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has…

— Leo Tolstoy

A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.

— Norm MacDonald

However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.

— Ivan Panin

every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it;…

— Maria Edgeworth

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough…

— Francis Parker Yockey

There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

— Brian Mulroney