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"Cowards! I see it now! You'll slay me and offer my head when you surrender!"
"[glances up from his drink and suddenly pales as he sees the ghost of Miki] There he is again! If you hate me, why not draw your sword? [He charges, swiping again and again with his sword]"
"Admirable, my Lord. You, who would soon rule the world, allow a ghost to frighten you."
"Without ambition, man is not man."
"I did not stain my hands with blood to forward Yoshiteru, Miki's son."
"Listen, even the crow is saying: The throne is yours."
"What warrior would not want to be lord of a mighty castle?"
"[singing] Men are vain and death is long, And pride dies first within the grave, For hair and nails are growing still, When face and fame are gone, Nothing in this world will save, Or measure up man's actions here, Nor in the next - for there is none, This life must end in fear, Only evil may maintain, An afterlife for those who will, Who love this world - who have no son, To whom ambition calls, Even so - this false fame falls, Death will reign - man dies in vain."
"You humans! Never will I comprehend you. You are afraid of your desires - you try to hide them."
"If you choose ambition, lord, then choose it honestly, with cruelty."
"If you would make a mountain of the dead, pile it so it reaches the sky."
"If you would shed blood, then let it run as a river."
"Washizu soldier: A message from Lady Asaji! "If arrows cannot open the gates, then a corpse will.""
"Washizu samurai: I have fought in many battles and have seen blood, yet this stain horrifies me. Because this is the blood of a dog, the blood of a despised traitor. He was a coward too. Cried for mercy after his revolt was over."
"Toshiro Mifune - Taketoki Washizu"
"Isuzu Yamada - Lady Asaji Washizu"
"Takashi Shimura - Noriyasu Odagura"
"Akira Kubo - Yoshiteru Miki"
"Yōichi Tachikawa - Kunimaru Tsuzuki"
"Minoru Chiaki - Yoshiaki Miki"
"Takamaru Sasaki - Lord Kuniharu Tsuzuki"
"Chieko Naniwa - Witch"
"Kokuten Kōdō - First General"
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.