Justifiable Quotes

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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… — Joe Biden
There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. — Ambrose Bierce
If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his… — Harry Vardon
Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently… — Tim Noakes
Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great… — Ambrose Bierce
I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable… — Bobby Knight
Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity. — Charles Darwin
...the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves been a moral… — Richard Furman
Reviews for someone like me come in three packages. One is justifiable praise, the second is justifiable criticism, and the third is, "This is only… — Steve Martin
It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used for products like… — Peter Singer
While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands… — Margaret Sanger
Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings. — Hannah Arendt
While we see the Course of the final abolition of human Slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all… — Robert E. Lee
. . . just as God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance, as we become more like Him, neither can we.… — Neal A. Maxwell
Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred. — Edmund Burke
Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a… — Dennis Prager
Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it.… — Victor Davis Hanson
How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound of a tortured… — Jonathan Safran Foer
There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. — G. H. Hardy
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to… — G. H. Hardy

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