Taking public positions inevitably generates enemies and hostile responses

Evidence

If you don’t have enemies, you don’t have character” actor Paul Newman is reputed to have once said. “If you want to be Everybody’s Darling, you’ll end up being Everybody’s Idiot,” as politician Franz Josef Strauß put it. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 350

Categorization

• CANDY: Both quotes are punchy, quotable, and useful icebreakers.
• XREF: connects to: Public lamenting of polarization may itself deepen partisan animosity. — Rachel Hartman et al., Interventions to Reduce Partisan…, 73

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• Public lamenting of polarization may itself deepen partisan animosity. (similarity 0.80)