1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. Nanabhoy Palkhivala

Nanabhoy Palkhivala Quotes

Nanaboy "Nani" Ardeshir Palkhivala was an Indian jurist and liberal economist.



✵ 16. January 1920 – 11. December 2002
Nanabhoy Palkhivala photo
Nanabhoy Palkhivala: 2   quotes 0   likes

Nanabhoy Palkhivala Quotes

“The survival of our democracy and the unity and integrity of the nation depend upon the realisation that constitutional morality is no less essential than constitutional legality. Dharma lives in the hearts of public men; when it dies there, no Constitution, no law, no amendment, can save it.”

Nanabhoy Palkhivala

Privy Purse case Madhav Rao Jivaji Rao Scindia vs Union of India, (1971) 1 SCC 85 http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/660275/

Men , Law , Democracy , Heart

“India is like a donkey carrying a sack of gold. The donkey does not know what it is carrying but is content to go along with its load on the back.”

Nanabhoy Palkhivala

Quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2014). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa., p. 10

Similar authors

Amartya Sen photo
Amartya Sen 31
Indian economist
Jan Tinbergen photo
Jan Tinbergen 21
Dutch economist
Thomas J. Sargent photo
Thomas J. Sargent 10
American economist
Paul A. Samuelson photo
Paul A. Samuelson 47
American economist
John Maynard Keynes photo
John Maynard Keynes 122
British economist
John Hicks photo
John Hicks 14
British economist
Theodore Schultz photo
Theodore Schultz 15
American economist
Douglass C. North photo
Douglass C. North 18
American Economist
Wassily Leontief photo
Wassily Leontief 10
Russian economist
Ludwig von Mises photo
Ludwig von Mises 62
austrian economist