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"I'd rather be here, a free man among brothers, facing a long march and a hard fight, than the richest citizen in Rome: fat with food he didn't work for, and surrounded by slaves."
"We've traveled a long ways together. We've fought many battles and won many victories. Now, instead of taking ships to our homes across the sea, we must fight again once more. Maybe there's no peace in this world, for us or for anyone else, I don't know. But I do know that as long as we live, we must remain true to ourselves."
"When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win."
"I am Spartacus!"
"Crixus always wanted to march on Rome. Now he doesn't have to. Rome has come to us."
"He'll come back. He'll come back, and he'll be millions!"
"Good luck, and may fortune smile upon... most of you."
"But I'm a civilian. I'm more of a civilian than most civilians."
"If there was no Rome, I'd dream of her. If there were no gods, I'd revere them."
"I promise you, a new Rome, a new Italy and a new empire. I promise the destruction of the slave army, and the restoration of order. I promise the living body of Spartacus for whatever punishment you may deem fit. That, or his head. This I have sworn, in the name of my fathers, in the temple that guards their bones."
"I'm not after glory, I'm after Spartacus! And gentlemen, I mean to have him. However, this campaign is not about killing Spartacus. It is to kill the legend of Spartacus."
"One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one."
"You know, this republic of ours is something like a rich widow. Most Romans love her as their mother, but Crassus dreams of marrying the old girl, to put it politely."
"The thrilling adventure that electrified the world!"
"Electrifying Excitement!"
"They trained him to kill for their pleasure. . .but they trained him a little too well. . ."
"It roars with fierce excitement!"
"More titanic than any story ever told!"
"Kirk Douglas - Spartacus"
"Laurence Olivier - Crassus"
"Jean Simmons - Varinia"
"Charles Laughton - Gracchus"
"Peter Ustinov - Batiatus"
"Tony Curtis - Antoninus"
"John Gavin - Julius Caesar"
"John Dall - Marcus Glabrus"
"Nina Foch - Helena Glabrus"
"John Ireland - Crixus"
"Herbert Lom - Tigranes Levantus (pirate envoy)"
"Charles McGraw - Marcellus"
"Joanna Barnes - Claudia Marius"
"Harold J. Stone - David"
"Woody Strode - Draba"
"Peter Brocco - Ramon"
"Paul Lambert - Gannicus"
"Robert J. Wilke - Guard Captain"
"Nick Dennis - Dionysius"
"John Hoyt - Caius"
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.