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"You don't understand, or you're trying really hard not to... are you guys being willfully dense?"
"What we saw was impossible. You know that, don't you? What do we say? How do we convince them [to stay inside]? Ollie, what the hell were those tentacles even attached to?"
"Want another reason to get the hell out of here? I'll give you the best one: her. Mrs. Carmody. Our very own Jim Jones. I'd like to leave before people start drinking the Kool-Aid."
"There's no defense against the will of God. There's no court of appeals in hell. The end times have come; not in flames, but in mist..."
"We have Judas in our midst!"
"The day I need a friend like you, I'll just have myself a little squat and shit one out."
"No, don't go out there. It's death out there. It's the end of days."
"Don't go out there! There's something in the mist!"
"Something in the mist took John Lee and I heard him screaming!"
"You can't convince some people there's a fire even when their hair is burning. Denial is a powerful thing."
"As a species, we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?"
"Welcome to Sesame Street, kids. Today's word is 'expiation'."
"You'd think educating children would be more of a priority in this country but you'd be wrong. Governments got better things to spend our money on, like corporate hand outs and building bombs."
"It appears we may have a problem of some magnitude."
"Thomas Jane as David Drayton"
"Marcia Gay Harden as Mrs. Carmody"
"Laurie Holden as Amanda Dumfries"
"Jeffrey DeMunn as Dan Miller"
"Andre Braugher as Brent Norton"
"Sam Witwer as Private Wayne Jessup"
"Toby Jones as Ollie Weeks"
"William Sadler as Jim Grondin"
"Frances Sternhagen as Irene Reppler"
"Nathan Gamble as Billy Drayton"
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.