Roald Dahl vs. Jair Bolsonaro
Read 20 entries attributed to Roald Dahl alongside 20 attributed to Jair Bolsonaro. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Roald Dahl 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: family, justice, time, change, human nature, politics. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Roald Dahl, entry #77934: "The Candy Man" by Margaret Talbot in The New Yorker"
Attributed to Jair Bolsonaro, entry #99811: "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. Now, when I'm smoking…"
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Roald Dahl
1916 – 1990
Roald Dahl was a British author of popular children's literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime fighter ace. His books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. He has been called "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century".
"The Candy Man" by Margaret Talbot in The New Yorker"
"A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no…"
#family"Little Billy’s mother was always telling him exactly what he was allowed to do and what he was not allowed to do. All the things he was allowed to do were bo…"
#family"Two rights don't equal a left."
#justice"It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you."
#love"A guide to finding sources and literature about Roald Dahl, by Kelly Harkrader"
#books"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who do…"
#humor"There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity; maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there is always a reas…"
#kindness"It is very difficult to phone people in China, Mr. President," said the Postmaster General, "The country is so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you wing y…"
#time"Grown-ups are quirky creatures, full of quirks and secrets."
#change"Dreams is very mystical things," the BFG said. "Human beans is not understanding them at all. Not even their brainiest professors is understanding them."
#wisdom"Ah, but they is not killing their own kind," the BFG said. "Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own kind."
#Human Nature"It was all this, I think, that made me begin to have doubts about religion and even about God. If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God’s chosen…"
#religion"A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men."
#wisdom"There's enough chocolate in there to fill every bathtub in the entire country! And all the swimming pools as well!"
#politics"It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you."
#love"The Way Out television series"
#dreams"The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front o…"
#friendship"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that, I am sure, is why he does it."
#freedom"I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Emb…"
#loveJair 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.
"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"What is a golden shower?"
#money"I have five children. There were four men, on the fifth I got weak and a woman came out."
#family"it's devastating to know that someone with so much influence has such a disdain for the queer community."
#knowledge"There’s an awareness in Brazil that the reforms are vital for the federal entities to continue operating. Brazil has to work out. If not, the Left will retur…"
#knowledge"Today, 14% of the Brazilian territory is demarcated as indigenous land, but we must understand that our natives are human beings, just like any of us. They w…"
#justice"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"The mass suicide at Jonestown was the final episode of this tragic story — the end result of a personality cult around Jones, a paranoid narcissist. Jim Jone…"
#art"If by chance he erred and it were proven, I regret it as a father, but he’ll have to pay the price for those actions we can’t accept."
#family"I refuse any kind of support coming from supremacist groups. I recommend that, for coherence, they support the leftist candidate, who loves segregating socie…"
#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"With humility and confidence in the liberating power of truth, let me reassure you that you will be able to count on this new Brazil that I represent. Thank …"
#truth"I'm a victim of prejudice against heterosexuals."
"In my country, we had to do something about the nearly 70 thousand killings and countless violent crimes that annually tore apart the Brazilian population. L…"
#life"Over the past few decades, we let ourselves be seduced by ideologies that sought not the truth, but absolute power. Ideology has settled in the domains of cu…"
#society"It was in many ways a political marriage between the most radical evangelical and the most controversial militarist, who together hope to conceive a new gene…"
#politics"What debt ? I never enslaved anyone in my life. Look, if you really look at history, the Portuguese didn’t even step foot in Africa. The blacks themselves tu…"
#life"PSOL is party of dicks and faggots. I will respond to the senator with toilet paper."
#art"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