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"Schuster, bleib bei deinem Leisten."
"Der Schuster hat (oder trägt) die schlechtesten Schuhe."
"Juristen sind wie Schuster, die zerren mit den Zähnen // Das Leder, sie die Rechte, dass sie sich müssen dehnen."
"Es hat der Schuster Franz zum Dichter sich entzückt. // Was er als Schuster tat, das tut er noch: er flickt."
""Der Schuster Jakob Böhme war ein großer Philosoph. Manche Philosophen von Ruf sind nur große Schuster."- Karl Marx: Die Verhandlungen des 6. rheinischen Landtags • Erster Artikel. Debatten über Preßfreiheit und Publikation der Landständischen Verhandlungen. Erstdruck in: Rheinische Zeitung (Köln), Nr. 125-139, 5.-19. 5. 1842. Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: Werke. Berlin 1956, Band 1, Seite 72"
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.