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 bandit.
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… - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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…
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience. - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.
Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia. - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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. - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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 … - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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 …
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… - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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 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… - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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…
It's proper that people have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely. - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
It's proper that people have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.
Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act. - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act.
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