Zoia Horn

Power corrupts people in small as well as big scale, I discovered. People with small powers use little irritants like flea bites, to assert control and punish.

— Zoia Horn

How does one help change the treadmill into a road, or better still, a meandering path?

— Zoia Horn

In Hitler's Germany, Jews were forced to wear identifying stars of David on their sleeves. Black people in the United States wore their identification all the time.

— Zoia Horn

Those days [in prison] revealed the banal cruelties that jails create and nurture. I saw people punished not only by being locked up but then by being degraded, treated capriciously, their personal dignity undermined, with no real recourse of appeal for fairness and justice.

— Zoia Horn

...if you dislike something enough to criticize it, what are you going to do about it? It was like a refrain, often uncomfortable, but one that could not be silenced.

— Zoia Horn