All Pramoedya Ananta Toer Quotes
- Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge. Give
- Do not underestimate the human being, who sometimes appears so simple. Even with sight as sharp as an eagle, a mind as sharp as a… Appears
- An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. That is what it means… Act
- It is proper for people to have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely. Friends
- Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities. Admit
- Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the teacher is also… Bandit
- Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. ...… Able
- I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not always the case. The human… Case
- Aku bangga menjadi seorang liberal, Tuan, liberal konsekwen. Memang orang lain menamainya liberal keterlaluan. Bukan hanya tidak suka ditindas, tidak suka menindas, lebih dari itu:… Bukan
- Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia. Award
- I'll do as I please. My mind is not to be imprisoned. Imprisoned
- Every book that is banned is a badge of honor. Badge
- I don't follow any kind of 'isms.' If there is one, it will be Pram-ism. Any
- I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience. Conscience
- I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself. Happen
- Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order… Been
- You must first of all think justly. Don’t sit in judgment over others when you don’t know the truth of the matter. All
- Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act. Act
- My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who… Action
- I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos comprising the entire… Active
- The love I knew was from books.. Book
- Capital dictates the fate of humanity. Capital
- At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates. All
- A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself. Children
- Such was the love of this grandson for his grandmother that two years after the death of his mother, when she herself fell gravely ill,… All