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"Wenn Diogenes in unserer Zeit leben würde, müßte seine Laterne eine Blendlaterne sein."
"Wäre ich nicht Alexander, wollte ich Diogenes sein."
"Mancher wird ein freier Diogenes, nicht wenn er in dem Fasse, sondern wenn dieses in ihm wohnt."
"Ein geistreicher Mann ist verloren, wenn er nicht auch ein Mann von energischem Charakter ist. Hat man die Laterne des Diogenes, so muss man auch des Diogenes Stock haben."
"Diogenes, schnell, sag an, welches Schicksal nahm dich fort zum Hades. Ein Hund nahm mich fort mit gierigem Biß."
"Menschen rief ich, keinen Abschaum."
"Ich suche einen Menschen."
"[Ich kann] Männer beherrschen."
"[Ich bin] Bürger der Welt."
"Nimm deinen Schatten von mir!"
"Geh mir ein wenig aus der Sonne!"
"Gehe in ein Bordell und lerne, dass zwischen teurem und billigem Vergnügen kein Unterschied ist."
"Die freie Rede [ist das Schönste am Menschen]."
"Bildung ist für die Jungen Weisheit, für die Alten Ermutigung, für die Armen Reichtum und für die Reichen Schmuck."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.