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"Dessous les pavés c'est la plage... (better known in its original form: Sous les pavés, la plage!)"
"Nous sommes tous des juifs allemands !"
"Soyez réalistes, demandez l'impossible."
"Laissons la peur du rouge aux bêtes à cornes !"
"L'imagination prend le pouvoir (ou plus simplement : L'imagination au pouvoir !)"
"La liberté, c'est le crime qui contient tous les crimes ; c'est notre arme absolue !"
"Vivez sans temps mort, jouissez sans entraves."
"L'humanité ne sera heureuse que quand le dernier capitaliste sera pendu avec les tripes du dernier gauchiste."
"Ceux qui prennent leurs désirs pour des réalités sont ceux qui croient à la réalité de leurs désirs."
"Tout pouvoir abuse. Le pouvoir absolu abuse absolument."
"Contestation. Mais con d'abord."
"Ne me libérez pas, je m'en charge."
"Il est interdit d'interdire !"
"The revolution is unbelievable because it's real."
"Nous ne voulons pas d'un monde où la certitude de ne pas mourir de faim s'échange contre le risque de mourir d'ennui !"
"The favourite slogan, the one that caught on during the May 1968 fête in France was "it is forbidden to forbid". There is nothing to forbid the youth of Europe to reject both communism and capitalism. What will they build in the absence of both systems? Will their concept of building a new structure with a new philosophy mean willful self-destruction? This sounds insane but the youth of Europe is not insane."
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.