"My words, my writing, my actions—these have never……" — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
"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 creates art only for himself. That is masturbation."
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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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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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