10 Quotes by John Peter Nettl

Personal dislike as a political end to itself was alien to her; one should not attack people in public except as for political purposes. To this extent, her attitude was the exact opposite of her German colleagues' who deplored personal politics in public, but respected personal dislike.

I am determined to bring even more severity, clarity, and reserve into my life (she wrote in 1908).

Passion is curiously exclusive and the need for it irresistible, while promiscuity is passionless--a mere collector's obsession.

Clarity is blinding and can be the most destructive element of all in human relations.

As Jogiches walked in with her past the potted plants in the entrance, to face the smiles and all the food laid out on little tables, he whispered: 'As soon as this dinner is over, I shall kill you...

Rosa reports the engagement of her niece in 1912 to a nice young man without a name. It may therefore be that the last descendants of the Luxemburg family are living somewhere in England.

A dead martyr can be manipulated by his heirs; a living one is apt to drag his colleagues to the extremes dictated by the contingent pressures of his martyrdom.

She had privacy, and the privilege of walking up and down the same battlements as the sentries.

There is no tragedy without commitment; no negation even, without it.