- Emile Zola: Mr. General de Pellieux, you can serve your fatherland in different ways, with the sword and with the pen. With no doubts, General de Pellieux has won various battles on the battlefields. I don't know where. My work has spead the language of our country in the entire world. I leave it to the posterity to decide between the names of de Pellieux and Emile Zola.
- Alfred Dreyfus: [while standing in front of a loaded gun] No, I'm not gonna kill myself. I will live. To prove my innocence.