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"I call money “national wealth” and this other “natural wealth.”"
"Absent any social or political critique. But “Your Money or Your Life” was never supposed to be just a self-help guide to saving your own financial life."
"There’s a lot of blather about meaningful work and purpose in life. It’s dangled out as a carrot, and I don’t know how many people actually get to do that."
"Spending money is not an assertion of your freedom. It is the key to your next enslavement."
"Nobility is one thing, but to die of frugality is another."
"Things that should happen because of justice and environmental sustainability, but will also benefit the FIRE people in the FIRE movement."
"A lot of people are stuck for their entire lives in jobs that do not agree with their souls because of college debt."
"We need to look as a society at the system that says to succeed you need a college education, but you have to sell your future to get it."
"I never saw it as a book that’s about giving up things."
"I was selling outsmarting a system that’s trying to outsmart you."
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.