"I don't write to give joy to readers……" — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
"I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience."
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28 Quotes by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Pramoedya Ananta Toer has 28 quotes on this site.
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Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.
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Do not underestimate the human being, who sometimes appears so simple. Even with sight as sharp as an eagle, a…
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An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds.…
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It is proper for people to have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.
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Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.
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Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely…
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Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities…
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I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not…
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Aku bangga menjadi seorang liberal, Tuan, liberal konsekwen. Memang orang lain menamainya liberal keterlaluan. Bukan hanya tidak suka ditindas, tidak…
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Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.
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I'll do as I please. My mind is not to be imprisoned.
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Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.
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If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he…
— Francis of Assisi
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I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this…
— David Attenborough
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
— Richard Bach
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their…
— Walter Bagehot
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
— Honore de Balzac
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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
— Honore de Balzac
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to…
— Ingmar Bergman
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become…
— Bono
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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
— Bono
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