Ralph Hodgson (1871–1962) British writer
"Stupidity Street"
Poems (1917)
Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 68
Context: In the time of Jesus almost everybody worked in small shops or on the land and then sold or bartered their own products in the towns. There were no vast industrial centers, no great factories, no steam power or electricity. Everyone knew his neighbor by name. There was no highly developed division of labor, nor were there great extremes of wealth and poverty. Such economic conditions are ideal—or at least as nearly ideal as they can ever be—for the spread of Christian communism. And so they are still in many parts of Russia.
Ralph Hodgson (1871–1962) British writer
"Stupidity Street"
Poems (1917)
“For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Composition as Explanation (1926)
Context: For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.
Context: No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept... For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.
Francesco Filippini (1853–1895) Italian impressionist painter
Venice, 1893 <br class="br">…lavorato molto ma venduto men che poco pur avendo mandato per tutta Europa, infruttuosamente o quasi… (Venezia, 1893). <br class="br">Francesco Filippini, Francesco Filippini il dossier di uno splendido pittore https://www.stilearte.it/francesco-filippini-il-dossier-uno-splendido-pittore-morto-a-42-anni-di-tisi/, Stilarte.it, November 4, 2015.
“I am easy to work with and get along well with almost everybody.”
Preity Zinta (1975) film actress
Personal Quotes
Aaron C. Brown (1956) American financial analyst
Source: The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006), Chapter 5, Pokernomics, p. 127
Leopold III of Belgium (1901–1983) King of Belgians
The visit of King Albert I to the Belgian Congo in 1928. Between propaganda and reality. https://www.congoforum.be/Upldocs/Het_bezoek_van_koning_Albert_I_aan_Belgi.compressed.pdf In July 1933, in a noted speech to the Senate, Leopold made a plea for the development of paysannat or indigenous agriculture in then Belgian Congo.
“Jesus accepted John as the forerunner of his own work.”
Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) United States Baptist theologian
Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Ch.2 The Social Aims of Jesus, p. 52-53
Context: Jesus accepted John as the forerunner of his own work. It was the popular movement created by John which brought Jesus out of the seclusion of Nazareth. He received John's baptism as the badge of the new Messianic hope and repentance.... He drew his earliest and choicest disciples from the followers of John. When John was dead, some thought Jesus was John risen from the dead. He realized clearly the difference between the stern ascetic spirit of the Baptist and his own sunny trust and simple human love, but to the end of his life he championed John and dared the Pharisees to deny his divine mission.... In the main he shared John's national and social hope. His aim too was the realization of the theocracy.