Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia..

It's proper that people have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely..

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, he vowed to h….

I'll do as I please. My mind is not to be imprisoned..

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 razor, senses more ….

I will not close my eyes, neither those in my head nor those in my soul, as the ship carries me away, along with my future, my dreams, and my beliefs….

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

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 to be educate….

I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a 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..

At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates..

The fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul, we couldn't use it, Mister..

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 a….

Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. ... Everything tha….

The love I knew was from books..

A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself..

I don't follow any kind of 'isms.' If there is one, it will be Pram-ism..

Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities..

You must first of all think justly. Don’t sit in judgment over others when you don’t know the truth of the matter..

Capital dictates the fate of humanity..

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 constel….