Skip to content

Pramoedya Ananta Toer Quotes

1925–2006 Indonesia

Pramoedya Ananta Toer (6 February 1925 – 30 April 2006), was an Indonesian writer and novelist.

Indonesia
Novelists
Short story writers

Random Pramoedya Ananta Toer quote

5 quotes

Bravery for the sake of bravery is just as negative as acting arbitrarily for the sake of acting arbitrarily.They are both extravagances, nothing more.

All the powerful are the same. It's when they start talking that they feel greatness, and even more so when they're not listening to others.

Europe taught that all great men are humanity's teachers.[...] America teaches that whoever succeeds in life should be your leader. Japan teaches that a man who has many friends is a man who has mastered life and such a man is a good man.

[...] only old branches can be broken. The young ones bend with the storm. Only the stupid ones resist.

There must be a reason, some proper grounds to attack another party because that's the European way of thinking. Not like the Asian kings - they attacked other kingdoms giving no other reason than that they wanted to be stronger than others. Europe must have a reason, even if it's just made up and isn't really true, but there must be some excuse for the action.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Pramoedya Ananta Toer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.