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We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.

~ Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust Crime Dreyfus

It was not, however, to these Fascist groups, numerically unimportant as they were, that the Third Republic owed its collapse. On the contrary, the plain, if paradoxical, truth is that their influence was never so slight as at the moment when the collapse actually took place. What made France fall was the fact that she had no more true Dreyfusards, no one who believed that democracy and freedom, equality and justice could any longer be defended or realized under the republic.

~ Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt 1967 Democracy Democracy Fails Dreyfus Fascism French Republic Third Republic

Outwardly, I hope, I wear my usual mask of detachment, even irony, for there has never been a situation,however dire, even this one, that did not strike me as containing at least some element of the human comedy.

~ Robert Harris

Robert Harris Comedy Dreyfus Historical Fiction

...it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...

~ Robert Harris

Robert Harris Dreyfus France Historical Fiction Military
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