"Every book that is banned is a badge…" — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

"Every book that is banned is a badge of honor."

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28 Quotes by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Pramoedya Ananta Toer has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.
Do not underestimate the human being, who sometimes appears so simple. Even with sight as sharp as an eagle, a…
An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds.…
It is proper for people to have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.
Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.
Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely…
Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities…
I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not…
Aku bangga menjadi seorang liberal, Tuan, liberal konsekwen. Memang orang lain menamainya liberal keterlaluan. Bukan hanya tidak suka ditindas, tidak…
Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.
I'll do as I please. My mind is not to be imprisoned.
I don't follow any kind of 'isms.' If there is one, it will be Pram-ism.

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This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to… — Joe Arpaio
I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed… — Sandra Bullock
When I did Comic Relief, I did it to be on the show; it's a badge of honor as a… — Drew Carey
Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mutilation is the badge that can never be taken off, and sets us apart from all others. Pain is important… — Clive Barker
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose... — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only… — Jonathon Porritt
Anybody who French bashes just might as well wear a badge that says 'I am a follower! I don't think… — Janeane Garofalo
One of my symptoms included my obsession with ghosts and law enforcement -- I carry around a police badge with… — Dan Aykroyd
I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly… — Ann Coulter
Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in… — Thomas Jefferson

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