Pramoedya Ananta Toer Quotes

“I've often heard people say, “Your country is beautiful, a virtual paradise.” When will the people of Indonesia be as beautiful as their land, with a civilization and culture that contributes to the greater beauty of humankind and no longer smothers and strangles the mind?”

“The love I knew was from books..”

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

“People must be just and fair, starting with what they thought.”

“All we can do is pray, Ma, pray.No, Child, these are the deeds of human beings. Planned by the brains of humans, and by the warped hearts of humans. It is to people we must speak our words. God has never sided with the defeated.”

“Capital dictates the fate of humanity.”

“She is like a meteor shooting off by itself, traveling through space, knowing no bounds, who knows ehere eventually to come to ground, on another planet or back on our earth again, or to disappear in the infinity of nature.”

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

“Lihat, ini Arok, yang tetap mempertahankan Tumapel. Dia dan pasukannya akan mempertahankannya sampai titik darah terakhir. Bukan karena imbalan uang, emas dan perak dan singgasana. Hanya karena kesetiaan pada janji.”

“Kehidupan lebih nyata daripada pendapat siapapun tentang kenyataan.”