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"Ich habe nicht die Hälfte von dem erzählt, was ich gesehen habe, weil keiner mir geglaubt hätte."
"Wenn Ihre Majestät aufhören werden zu geben" Raleighs Antwort auf die Frage Königin Elizabeths der Ersten: "Raleigh, wann werden Sie endlich aufhören zu betteln?"
"What is our life? A play of passion,"
"Wenn das Herz am rechten Fleck ist, spielt es keine Rolle, wo der Kopf ist."
"Schlag schon zu, Mann!"
"Die Welt ist nur ein großes Gefängnis, aus dem täglich einige zur Exekution geführt werden."
"Der Amerikaner, der den Kolumbus zuerst entdeckte, machte eine böse Entdeckung."
"Kein Ergebnis menschlichen Fortschritts wird durch ungeteilte Zustimmung erzielt. Und jene, die aufgeklärter sind als alle anderen, sind auch dazu verurteilt, diesem Licht zu folgen, allen Widerständen zum Trotz."
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.