Di Balik Malaysia Quotes

“As we walk on the stage of human agency otherwise known as history, we should remember that ours are but bit-parts, to be played only momentarily before we move on. The characters may change but the paradigm remains, every generation being the inheritor of the role of Hamlet, yearning and looking for lost fathers, weary of becoming broken men themselves.”
― Farish A. Noor, Di Balik Malaysia: Dari Majapahit ke Putrajaya

“Watching the developments from afar was both an exercise of academic speculation and resignation to the finitude of one's capabilities; an opportunity to tend to one's neuroses in the privacy of one's secret garden; an acquiescence to impotence and an acknowledgement of the limits of the pen.”
― Farish A. Noor, Di Balik Malaysia: Dari Majapahit ke Putrajaya

“Write, and write well. But most of all write truthfully, that's enough, for the truth always hurts the wicked and evil.”
― Farish A. Noor, Di Balik Malaysia: Dari Majapahit ke Putrajaya

“The younger generation often finds itself at odds with the older generation, and no era is without its generational divides and conflicts. This is true of us living in the present as it has been throughout human history, and there is nothing to suggest that things will change in the future. Perhaps it is human nature after all, for the young to stand above the old and to pronounce their judgment on the past on the way things were, dreaming aloud of how things should be otherwise- until, of course, the time comes when age makes us wiser and more humane, and we come to realise that one day we too will be judged by the restless heralds of the coming age.”
― Farish A. Noor, Di Balik Malaysia: Dari Majapahit ke Putrajaya