"Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tidak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah. Menulis adalah bekerja untuk keabadian."
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

"Berterimakasihlah pada segala yang memberi kehidupan."
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Bumi Manusia)

"How simple life is. It's as simple as this: you're hungry and you eat, you're full and you shit. Between eating and shitting, that's where human life is found. - (Houseboy + Maid, in Tales from Djakarta)"
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Tales From Djakarta: Caricatures of Circumstances and their Human Beings)

"Dalam hidup kita, cuma satu yang kita punya, yaitu keberanian. Kalau tidak punya itu, lantas apa harga hidup kita ini?"
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

""seorang terpelajar harus sudah berbuat adil sejak dalam pikiran apalagi dalam perbuatan""
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer (This Earth of Mankind)

"Kalian boleh maju dalam pelajaran, mungkin mencapai deretan gelar kesarjanaan apa saja, tapi tanpa mencintai sastra, kalian tinggal hanya hewan yang pandai."
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

"Kalau mati, dengan berani; kalau hidup, dengan berani. Kalau keberanian tidak ada, itulah sebabnya setiap bangsa asing bisa jajah kita."
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

"Berbahagialah dia yang makan dari keringatnya sendiri,
bersuka karena usahanya sendiri,
dan maju karena pengalamannya sendiri."
— Bumi manusia-Pramoedya Ananta Toer

""Tahu kau mengapa aku sayangi kau lebih dari siapa pun? Karena kau menulis. Suaramu takkan padam ditelan angin, akan abadi, sampai jauh, jauh di kemudian hari. (Mama, 84)"
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Child of All Nations)

"Menulis adalah sebuah keberanian..."
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

"A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself."
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer (The Girl From The Coast)

"Dalam hidup kita, cuma satu yang kita punya, yaitu keberanian. Kalau tidak punya itu, lantas apa harga hidup kita ini?"
— pramoedya ananta toer - "Itu Hanya Badai dalam Segelas Kopi", interview bersama pramoedya ananta to

"Dahulu dia selalu katakan apa yang dia pikirkan, tangiskan, apa yang ditanggungkan, teriakan ria kesukaan di dalam hati remaja. Kini dia harus diam- tak ada kuping sudi suaranya."
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

"At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates."
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer (This Earth of Mankind)

""Barang siapa tidak tahu bersetia pada azas, dia terbuka terhadap segala kejahatan: dijahati atau menjahati. (Mama, 4)"
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Child of All Nations)

"Karena kau menulis. Suaramu takkan padam ditelan angin, akan abadi, sampai jauh, jauh di kemudian hari."
— Pramoedya AnantaToer

"Barangsiapa muncul di atas masyarakatnya, dia akan selalu menerima tuntutan dari masyarakatnya-masyarakat yang menaikkannya, atau yang membiarkannya naik.... Pohon tinggi dapat banyak angin? Kalau Tuan segan menerima banyak angin, jangan jadi pohon tinggi"
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Child of All Nations)

"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 her that someday he would try to tell the world her life story.

'But why?' she asked humbly. 'I'm no one, just a girl from the coast'

'But you are everyone, Grandma,' the young Pramoedya told her. 'You are all the people who have ever had to fight to make this life their own."
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer (The Girl From The Coast)

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
— Charlie Chaplin

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
— Anne Frank

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
— Elie Wiesel

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
— May Sarton

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
— Albert Einstein

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
— Frank Zappa

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
— Albert Einstein (Albert Einstein)