Émile Zola:: What does it matter if an individual is shattered - if only justice is resurrected?


--Paul Muni (as Emile Zola) in The Life of Emile Zola

Émile Zola:: At this solemn moment, in the presence of this tribunal, which is the representative of human justice, before France, before the whole world, I swear that Dreyfus is innocent! By all that I have won, by all that I have written to spread the spirit of France, I swear that he is innocent. May all that melt away; may my name perish if Dreyfus be not innocent. He is innocent.


--Paul Muni (as Emile Zola) in The Life of Emile Zola

Émile Zola:: Why didn't Picquart say anything?
Lucie Dreyfus: Colonel Picquart is a good officer. He kept silent at the request of his superiors.
Émile Zola:: You mean they KNEW and they ordered him to suppress the truth? Why,that's monstrous!


--Paul Muni (as Emile Zola) in The Life of Emile Zola