William T. Vollmann

There have been times when I'm writing about things that are personally embarrassing. Like any human being, sometimes I can't help but wonder - 'What are the people I know going to think about this?' So I have to remind myself that all is permissible. Art has to be a free space. Language has to be a free space.

American Novelist

Peter Singer

All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living, then it is permissible to give it a lethal injection. These are decisions that should be taken by parents - never the state - in consultation with their doctors.

Australian Philosopher

Pramila Jayapal

When women are told that sexual harassment is 'part of the job' or when assistants of both sexes enable harassing behavior, they have bought into the culture that says such behavior is not just permissible, it is a desirable expression of power.

American Politician

Spiro T. Agnew

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Ezra Taft Benson

Food production is just one part of the repeated emphasis that you store a provision of food which will last for at least a year wherever it is legally permissible to do so.

American Leader

Eric Liu

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.

American Writer

Pawan Kalyan

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

Indian Actor

Sol LeWitt

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

American Artist

Niccolo Machiavelli

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Italian Writer

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Roman Statesman

The idea of what's permissible varies between cultures and contexts.

Cultural Sensitivity

Permissible often refers to what is allowed by specific rules, regulations, or laws.

Regulatory Context

'Permissible' can be subjective and depend on individual interpretation or agreement.

Subjectivity

 or future rain, "It will rain tomorrow." Notice that English requires a lot more information with respect to the timing of events. Why? Because I have to consider that and I have to modify what I'm saying to say, "It will rain," or "It's going to rain." It's simply not permissible in English to say, "It rain tomorrow."

Keith Chen: Could your...

 or future rain it will rain tomorrow notice that English requires a lot more information with respect to the timing of events why because I have to consider that and I have to modify what I'm saying to say it will rain it's Oram or it's going to rain it's simply not permissible in English to say it rained

Could your language...

 How many people think it was morally permissible for Grace to put the powder in the coffee? Okay. Good. So we ask people, how much should Grace be blamed in this case, which we call a failed attempt to harm? And we can compare that to another case, where everything in the real world is the same.

How we read each other's...

 ethical is it still permissible we're asking things like is this Oxfam donation form where the regular monthly donation is the preset default and people maybe without intending it or that way kind of encouraged or not into giving a regular donation instead of a one-time donation is that still

What your designs say...

 And here we find much more interesting verbal reports than compared to the faces. People say things like this, and I'll read it to you. So, "Large-scale governmental surveillance of email and internet traffic ought to be permissible as means to combat international crime and terrorism."

Do you really know why...

 where the regular monthly donation is the preset default, and people, maybe without intending it, are encouraged or nudged into giving a regular donation instead of a one-time donation, is that "still' permissible? Is it "still" ethical? We're fishing at the low end.

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 not something that was legally permissible let alone religiously in India it's not it's not there's a up to a seven year imprisonment fine if you get caught slaughtering cows but it happens nonetheless and so when the police get a tip-off that from a caring

Sacred Cows Rescued From...

 and put thought police upon you. And so there has been a genuine narrowing of what is permissible to say. And some of it is legitimate. There are certain words that there should be some social sanction against,

Political common ground...

 times permissible levels for bathing the Ganges and other Indian rivers are horrific ly polluted and successive Indian governments have failed to clean them up

Toxic Waste in the...

 benevolence or patience. But now I believe that there are no circumstances on earth where violent jihad is permissible, because it will lead to greater harm.