Thinker Comparison

Barack Obama vs. Robert A. Heinlein

Read 20 entries attributed to Barack Obama alongside 20 attributed to Robert A. Heinlein. Compare the wording and topic labels.

This page places 20 entries attributed to Barack Obama alongside 20 attributed to Robert A. Heinlein. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.

Topic labels present in both displayed selections: love, time, death, life, knowledge, truth, freedom. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.

Attributed to Barack Obama, entry #54248: "I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as…"

Attributed to Robert A. Heinlein, entry #1008: "Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, t…"

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Barack Obama

1961

Politics
United States
871 quotes

Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president. Obama previously served as a U.S.

"I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISI…"

#ethics

"Madiba reminds us that: “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate…"

#love

"When politicians insult Muslims, when a mosque is vandalized, or a kid bullied, that doesn’t make us safer. That’s not telling it like it is. It’s just wrong…"

#justice

"Democracy will win -- because a government’s legitimacy can only come from citizens; because in this age of information and empowerment, people want more con…"

#politics

"There’s still enormous problems in our society. But democracy is the way that we solve them. That's how we got health care for more of our people. That's how…"

#justice

"And because no one who works full-time in America should have to live in poverty, I am going to keep making the case that we need to raise the minimum wage b…"

#time

"Let me be absolutely clear: Iran is a grave threat."

#death

"There was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq, until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq."

"Agreements among nations. Strong institutions. Support for human rights. Investments in development. All these are vital ingredients in bringing about the ev…"

#life

"We always have the opportunity to choose our better history. We can always understand that most important decision -- the decision we make when we find our c…"

#justice

"Let me just make this point, John...We're not campaigning anymore. The election's over."

#justice

"And that’s why we support societies that empower women -- because no country will reach its potential unless it draws on the talents of our wives and our mot…"

#family

"But you know, we — when we feel stress, when we feel pressure, when we’re just fed information that encourages some of our worst instincts, we tend to fall b…"

#knowledge

"I was honored to be the first U.S. President to visit Cuba in almost 90 years. And we still have differences with the Cuban government, but what I said to Pr…"

#time

"If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."

#war

"We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or l…"

#time

"Of course, neither the United States nor Europe are perfect in adherence to our ideals, nor do we claim to be the sole arbiter of what is right or wrong in t…"

#leadership

"We’ve got to resist the false trap that says either there should be no accountability for police or that every police officer is suspect no matter what they do."

#truth

"As free peoples, we recognize that democracy is the most effective form of government ever devised for delivering progress and opportunity and prosperity and…"

#freedom

"This ruling is a victory for Jim Obergefell and the other plaintiffs in the case. It's a victory for gay and lesbian couples who have fought so long for thei…"

#family
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Robert A. Heinlein

1907 – 1988

Literature
United States
348 quotes

Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction author, engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasize scientific accuracy in his fiction and was thus a pioneer of the subgenre of hard science fiction. His published works, both fiction and non-fiction, express admiration for competence and emphasize the value of critical thinking.

"Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the…"

#love

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

#happiness

"May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live."

#life

"He was still having trouble readjusting. Wars were something you studied, not something that actually happened."

#life

"Luck is a bonus that follows careful planning—it’s never free."

#freedom

"As for population, every major shortcoming of our native planet could be traced to one cause: too many people, not enough planet."

#Human Nature

"I really am a good listener because you never can tell when you will pick up something useful—and all in the world any woman has to do to be considered “char…"

#friendship

"Since when did a mathematician need any tools but his own head? Pythagoras had done well enough with a stick and a stretch of sand."

#humor

"Hans had courage to burn. If he had been willing to knuckle under to the Nazis he would have stayed at Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. But Hans was a scientist. He…"

#truth

"Don, have you been dealing with a booklegger?"

#books

"“The trouble with you youngsters,” Joe said, “is that if you can’t understand a thing right off, you think it can’t be true. The trouble with your elders is,…"

#mind

"Apparently she believes she is safe. Evil is essentially stupid, Joe; despite her brilliance, she believes what she wishes to believe. Or it may be that she …"

#death

"Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell."

#gratitude

"Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty"

#truth

"Pop, who maintained that a wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice."

#wisdom

"As Thorby learned to use his mind, he found that he liked to; he developed an insatiable appetite for the printed page."

#knowledge

"The future is better than the past. Despite the crepehangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, a…"

#time

"Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat."

#humor

"Horses can manufacture more horses and that is one trick that tractors have never learned."

#knowledge

"When you haven’t data, guessing is illogical."

#philosophy
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