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"Wo bleibst du, Trost der ganzen Welt, Darauf sie all' ihr' Hoffnung stellt? O komm, ach komm vom höchsten Saal, Komm tröst uns hie im Jammertal."
"Die Gefolterten sagen zu allem ja, und weil sie dann nicht zu widerrufen wagen, müssen sie alles mit dem Tode besiegeln."
""Wir machen die Calender, aber Gott machet das Wetter." (ein Kalendermacher)"
""Straff muß sein, doch soll Barmhertzigkeit vorgehen." (Georg von Liegnitz-Brieg)"
""ich kan in einem Tag tausent Adeln unnd zu Rittern machen: Aber so mächtig bin ich nicht, daß ich in tausent Jahren einen Gelehrten machen könte." (Kaiser Sigismund)"
""Es sey kein fisch ohne graat, und kein Mensch ohne Mängel" (Es ist kein Fisch ohne Gräten und kein Mensch ohne Mängel) (Lorenz Zincgref)"
""Es sey besser, einen Freund haben, der viel werth sey, als viel haben, die nichts werth seyen." (Anacharsis)"
""Die Alten hatten ein Gewissen ohne Wissen, wir heut zu tag haben das Wissen ohne Gewissen." (ein Schweizer Prediger)"
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.