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At home (in Sweden), the actor`s profession was not considered particularly reputable, but being an actor or star in a Hollywood film was something very important in American eyes. Then I slowly realized that as an actor in Sweden you were allowed to be involved in some kind of artistic project which could be a flop and yet still be justifiable if it carried artistic weight and ambitions. In Hollywood, on the other hand, if you do not succeed you are nobody. You become a mere piece of paper with a figure on it. You are just as good-or bad-as your last film was financially. And while Sweden remains sufficiently small for you to work in, say, Malmö and still make films in Stockholm, in the States you either work in Hollywood or you live somewhere else and you work for the legitimate theater.

- Max von Sydow

This is one of those case where there can be multiple, justifiable ethical right answers.

- Bob Steele

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

- Peter Singer

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ` invasion, but a minimum of pain.

- Al Nash
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There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past.

- André Glucksmann

The frustration and anger is understandable and justifiable.

- Ashleigh Alexander

There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

- Ambrose Bierce