Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge..

Capital dictates the fate of humanity..

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….

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

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

The love I knew was from books..

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 ….

Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings ha….

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

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….

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

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….

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

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

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

I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not always the case. The human heart has a million facets..

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself..

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….

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

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….