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"Unsere Mythologie lesen wir täglich dreimal in der Zeitung."
"Meine ganze Arbeit hatte zum Ziel zu zeigen, daß der christliche Glaube höherstehend ist und nicht bloß eine weitere Mythologie."
"In jeder Biografie stehen Dinge, die niemals passiert sind. Die Menschen mögen Mythen."
""Der eigentliche Sinn des Mythos ist nicht der, ein objektives Weltbild zu geben; vielmehr spricht sich in ihm aus, wie sich der Mensch selbst in seiner Welt versteht; der Mythos will nicht kosmologisch, sondern anthropologisch"
"Das Bedürfnis, ja die Sehnsucht nach dem Mythos, wird in periodischen Abständen von denen reaktiviert, die sich jene uralten Bilder aus nostalgischen Gründen wieder zueigen machen möchten."
"Charakterlosigkeit ist ein Mythos, den biedere Individuen geschaffen haben, um damit die Faszination anderer Leute erklären zu können."
""Berlin ist eben ein Mythos. Die Luftbrücke, die Mauer, der Kalte Krieg, die Maueröffnung, die Wiedervereinigung"
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.