#friendship

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. ↗

— Barack Obama

#active #avoid #being #black #carefully

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world. ↗

— Barack Obama

#administration #arab #arab world #badly #been

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. ↗

— Plutarch

#better #change #changes #does #friend

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. ↗

— Socrates

#art #constant #continue #fall #firm

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. ↗

— King Solomon

#friend #iron #sharpens

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. ↗