"Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who……" — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

"Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act."

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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