Megan Phelps-Roper

My friends on Twitter didn't abandon their beliefs or their principles - only their scorn. They channeled their infinitely justifiable offense and came to me with pointed questions tempered with kindness and humor. They approached me as a human being, and that was more transformative than two full decades of outrage, disdain, and violence.

American Activist

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

American Writer

Joe Biden

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

American President

Peter Singer

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

Australian Philosopher

Jason Chaffetz

I would support eliminating certain tax breaks that are not economically justifiable if they are offset with reductions in tax rates.

American Politician

Harry Stack Sullivan

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

American Psychologist

Daniel Webster

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

American Statesman

Vijay Mallya

Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.

Indian Businessman

Sallust

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

Roman Historian

Albert Camus

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

French Philosopher

The justification for an action can be personal and vary from person to person.

Subjectivity Varies

What is justifiable in one culture may not be seen the same way in another.

Cultural Sensitivity

Often used to express support for emotions or reactions considering the circumstances.

Emotional Context

Used in the context of law to explain actions permitted by legal standards.

Legal Acceptance

In legal terms, 'justifiable' means meeting established legal criteria, not personal opinion.

Objective Standards

Often related to self-defense situations where the use of force is legally permitted.

Self-Defense Context

 simply for asking for a divorce, for doing things that in the west, we would see as not justifiable to end up in prison. This is Mida Hall. She was married at a very young age to a man who was decades older than her. He was handicapped, so every day her duties

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 They channeled their infinitely justifiable offense and came to me with pointed questions tempered with kindness and humor. They approached me as a human being, and that was more transformative than two full decades of outrage, disdain and violence.

Justifiable

Subjectivity Varies

Cultural Sensitivity

Emotional Context

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