Mark Twain vs. Jair Bolsonaro
Read 20 entries attributed to Mark Twain alongside 20 attributed to Jair Bolsonaro. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Mark Twain alongside 20 attributed to Jair Bolsonaro. 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: human nature, humor, time, books. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Mark Twain, entry #145: "I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible to the invention of a degraded nature, but I never saw a policeman interfere in the matter and I…"
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."
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Mark Twain
1835 – 1910
Mark Twain (1835) was an American writer and humorist, author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
"I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible to the invention of a degraded nature, but I never saw a policeman interfe…"
#Ethics"Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington", The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867), ed. John Paul"
#Aesthetics"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough."
#Aesthetics"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience"
#Human Nature"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."
#Aesthetics"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."
#love"After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her."
#love"Ah, it was worth ten years of a man’s life to be dead then! Everything was pleasant. I was in a good neighbourhood, for all the dead people that lived near m…"
#Ethics"He was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie."
#Aesthetics"He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty."
#Aesthetics"I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county."
#Aesthetics": "A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
#humor"There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not p…"
#life"The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it."
#humor"No accident ever comes late; it always arrives precisely on time."
#time"None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favor at the same time. There are many asses."
#time"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
#books"Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed."
#ethics"I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a divi…"
#humor"NOTICE. To the next Burglar. There is nothing but plated ware in this house, now and henceforth. You will find it in that brass thing in the dining room over…"
#mindJair 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"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"In Brazil, we have 1,000 penis amputations a year due to a lack of water and soap. We have to find a way to get out of the bottom of this hole."
#time"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 …"
#politics