Jair Bolsonaro vs. Ai Weiwei
Read 20 entries attributed to Jair Bolsonaro alongside 20 attributed to Ai Weiwei. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Jair Bolsonaro alongside 20 attributed to Ai Weiwei. 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: family, freedom, justice, money, humor, art, friendship, human nature. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Jair Bolsonaro, entry #8059: "Competence? It's a problem for each deputy. If I want to hire a prostitute for my office, I'll hire her. If I want to hire my mother, I'll hire her. It'll be my problem."
Attributed to Ai Weiwei, entry #238267: "I often ask myself if I am afraid of being detained again. I love freedom as much as anybody else, maybe more than most. But it is a tragedy to live your life in fear. It is worse…"
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Jair Bolsonaro
1955 – 2019
Jair Messias Bolsonaro is a Brazilian politician and former military officer who served as the 38th president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1991 to 2019.
"Competence? It's a problem for each deputy. If I want to hire a prostitute for my office, I'll hire her. If I want to hire my mother, I'll hire her. It'll be…"
#family"Look, working nine, ten years old at the farm, I was not harmed at all. When a nine-year-old, ten-year-old goes to work somewhere, it's full of people there.…"
#time"If one's son begins acting kind of gay, then when he is spanked he'll change his behavior."
#change"These agents from the Cuban regime were also taken to Venezuela by Hugo Chávez. Today around 60 thousand of them control and interfere with every area of loc…"
#freedom"Doing justice? Who wants to get me? Come on top of me. They want to lift my bank secrecy; I know that they have to have a fact, but I will open my own bank r…"
#justice"Hungary is a country that has suffered a lot with communism in the past, a people that knows what dictatorship is. The Brazilian people still do not know wha…"
#knowledge"When it comes to matters related to climate, democracy, human rights, to the equality of rights and duties between men and women, and many others, all we nee…"
#justice"What is a golden shower?"
#money"We have a problem with a former adviser, who used to work for Flávio, atypical activities. will be heard next week. If there is something wrong with me or my…"
#humor"There is a lot of people in soccer that are favorable to a return because unemployment is knocking on clubs’ doors too. Footballers, if infected with the vir…"
#art"it's devastating to know that someone with so much influence has such a disdain for the queer community."
#knowledge"I can't even go to Paraguay with my salary."
#humor"They lost in 1964, and now they have lost in 2016. To the memory of Colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, the dread of Dilma Rousseff."
#books"Yes, I’m homophobic – and very proud of it."
"Jesus Christ was not totally passive. He drove the money changers from the temple. If he had a firearm, he'd have used it."
#friendship"To say that hunger happens in Brazil is a big lie. People don't eat well and get sick. That I agree. Now go hungry, no. You do not see poor people on the str…"
#success"If I'm president, I'll leave UN. That institution is of no use. It's an organization of communists, of people that don't have any commitment at least to Sout…"
#Human Nature"I defend torture. A drug dealer who acts on the streets against our children must to be immediately put on a pau-de-arara. There would be no human rights in …"
#family"We want to have a great Brazil just like Trump wants to have a great America."
#justice"The recent declarations of Olavo de Carvalho against members of the government of the Republic do not contribute to the unity of its forces and the proposed …"
#politicsAi Weiwei
1957
Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist. Ai grew up in the far northwest of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile. As an activist, he has been openly critical of the Chinese government and its stance on democracy and human rights.
"I often ask myself if I am afraid of being detained again. I love freedom as much as anybody else, maybe more than most. But it is a tragedy to live your lif…"
#freedom"Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what’s on his mind. A fairy tale has come true."
#truth"The government may be made up of clever, sensible people. But if they do not believe in basic human values, the more clever or shrewd they are the greater th…"
#Human Nature"Beijing is two cities. One is of power and of money. People don’t care who their neighbors are; they don’t trust you. The other city is one of desperation. I…"
#money"The 2008 Olympics has created an illusion of China to the public and to the outside world. It is so fantastic, so unreal, that the entire meaning of the game…"
#philosophy"The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that."
#freedom"Contemporary art and the Party are an impossible situation. It’s like oil and water—they can never mix."
#art"Because of the economic crisis, China and the United States are bound together. This is a totally new phenomenon, and nobody will fight for ideology anymore.…"
#friendship"Anyone who cares about truth should avoid not politics, but Olympic lies."
#truth"People have said, if you leave, you may never come back. Or they may not even let you leave. So this is always a cost you may have to pay. But I don’t want t…"
#art"To me, to be political means you associate your work with a larger number of people’s living conditions, and that includes both mental and physical condition…"
#life"The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay."
#art"I lost all connection with the outside world and was immersed in a world of darkness. I was scared that my existence would fade silently. No one knew where I…"
#philosophy"When I returned to China , I didn’t have a U.S. passport, a wife, or a university degree. From the Chinese point of view, I was a total failure."
#family"Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources."
#Human Nature"Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don’t have to obey their own laws."
#justice"Tradition is only a readymade. It’s for us to make a new gesture—to use it as a reference, more as a starting point than conclusion. Of course, there are ver…"
#art"It’s hard to recover. You become not so innocent. You become, in a way, more sophisticated, which I think you shouldn’t. We should all have more simple happi…"
#happiness"Chairman Mao was the first in the world to use Twitter. All his quotations are within 140 words."
#humor"I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art."
#life