Our obligations to our city and our obligations to our friends might conflict with each other. Friendship can become a threat to politics because the duties to our friends regularly speak louder than our duties as citizens. In this chapter, I examine the role Aristotle assigns to attention in creating an ethical conflict between different obligations. In particular, I show the importance of attention in our relationships with friends or dear ones in such a way as to clarify the reason why the duties to our friends frequently speak louder than the duties towards more remote people. However, if this was the whole story, the obligations to our city or the duties towards people who are not close friends or family members but are nevertheless entitled would never stand a chance to be even considered. Thus, for the moral agent to be at all engaged in a puzzle such as the conflict between friendship and politics, they must be able to “hear” a competing voice. This chapter therefore examines the role of attention in relation to both close friends and people who are remote from us.