“Among those who pledged their support to the Central Committee was Feliks Dzierzynski. It was only after the arrest of this fanatic personality and devoted organizer that the National Committee could be established on home ground...Dzierzynski was released from prison… — John Peter Nettl Copy Share Image
“A dead martyr can be manipulated by his heirs; a living one is apt to drag his colleagues to the extremes dictated by the… — John Peter Nettl Copy Share Image
“There is no tragedy without commitment; no negation even, without it.” — John Peter Nettl Copy Share Image
“Rosa reports the engagement of her niece in 1912 to a nice young man without a name. It may therefore be that the last… — John Peter Nettl Copy Share Image
“If they had kept quiet, and lain low for a time, things might have fizzled out as another unreal Wortstreist, blown up by a… — John Peter Nettl Copy Share Image
“Personal dislike as a political end to itself was alien to her; one should not attack people in public except as for political purposes.… — John Peter Nettl Copy Share Image
“As Jogiches walked in with her past the potted plants in the entrance, to face the smiles and all the food laid out on… — John Peter Nettl Copy Share Image
“She had privacy, and the privilege of walking up and down the same battlements as the sentries.” — John Peter Nettl Copy Share Image
“I am determined to bring even more severity, clarity, and reserve into my life (she wrote in 1908).” — John Peter Nettl Copy Share Image
“Among those who pledged their support to the Central Committee was Feliks Dzierzynski. It was only after the arrest of this fanatic personality and… — John Peter Nettl Copy Share Image
“Passion is curiously exclusive and the need for it irresistible, while promiscuity is passionless--a mere collector's obsession.” — John Peter Nettl Copy Share Image
“Clarity is blinding and can be the most destructive element of all in human relations.” — John Peter Nettl Copy Share Image
