Status Updates From The Dreyfus Affair: The Sca...

‘Can you grasp this?’ Zola asks the President. ‘For the last year, General Billot, Generals Gonse and de Boisdeffre, have known that Dreyfus is innocent, and they have kept this terrible thing to themselves. And these people sleep at night, and have wives and children they love!’

‘How often I (Dreyfus) am reminded of Schopenhauer’s exclamation, at the
sight of human iniquity: “If God created the world, I would not like to be
God.”’

‘Is this a rebellion?’ asked King Louis when told of the fall of the Bastille. ‘No, sire,’ replied the Duc de la Rochefoucault-Liancourt, who had given him the news, ‘it is a revolution.’