Fali Sam Nariman - India Quotes

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The two great institutions of state to which I have been privileged to belong do appear from time to time to compromise themselves, as you say. However, I must assure you that but for these two great institutions we would never have emerged as a vibrant democracy. The late Justice R S Pathak once used a nice metaphor when I asked him how he would like to be remembered as a judge of the Supreme Court. He told me, with becoming humility: Every judge when he leaves the court must satisfy himself that he has left a little brick of his own making in that great edifice that is the Supreme Court of India.

Fali Sam Nariman
I have lived and flourished in a secular India. In the fullness of time if God wills, I would also like to die in a secular India.

Fali Sam Nariman
Noting that the prosperity witnessed around was "skin deep," Nariman said he was not sure whether because of globalisation or despite globalisation, the rich in India appeared to be getting richer and the poor still remained mired in abject poverty, shut out from education and job opportunities.

Fali Sam Nariman
He was optimistic about the future of India Though never too optimistic about its governments - whether central or state, whether past, present or future.

Fali Sam Nariman
Because these two judges showed to their generation of justices, and the generation after that, as to how to approach cases that came before the highest court. It is because judges with a political or social agenda are so few in number that they are long remembered. I have always considered it significant and beneficial for the development of the law in India that judges-without-an-agenda have been the more numerous.

Fali Sam Nariman
We in this country also need to make sure that the doors of learning are always kept open because India still belongs to the developing world.

Fali Sam Nariman