Immutable Quotes

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. (Charles Baudelaire)
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. View quote
James Baldwin
Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world. View quote
Tom Chatfield
There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success. View quote
Phil Knight
You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works. View quote
Kurt Loder
I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. View quote
Charles Darwin
It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
ACCIDENT, n. An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
"Just and true liberty, equal and impartial liberty," in matters spiritual and temporal, is a thing that all men are clearly entitled to by the eternal and immutable laws of God and nature, as well as by the law of nations and all well-grounded municipal laws, which must have their foundation in the former. View quote
Samuel Adams
One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds... View quote
Patrick Pearse
In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world. View quote
Ralph Cudworth
Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far as blather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them. View quote
Owen Feltham
Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy. View quote
Barack Obama
Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and turn headlong down an immutable course. View quote
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
I am working in Paris. I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something essential, some immutable reality, and now that I have lost everything else (thank God, it gets lost all on its own) I am trying to preserve this and, what is more, not to be content. In a word: I am working. View quote
Marc Chagall
Incomprehensible and immutable is the love wherewith God loves. He did not begin to love us only on the day we were reconciled to Him by the blood of His Son; He loved us before the world was made, that we too might become His sons together with His Only-begotten Son, long before we had any existence.... View quote
Augustine of Hippo
As much as we have free choice, absolute destiny is immutable. What is meant to happen does, through one measure or another. View quote
J.R. Ward
I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality. View quote
Harold Geneen
Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling. (Frank Chodorov)
There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it. View quote
Larry Poons
The touch, sure and light [is] fixing something of the passing moment.. ..memory is the true, imperishable life, that which has sunk without trace and been forgotten was not worth experiencing, the sweet hours, and the great and dread, are immutable. Dreams are life itself – and dreams are more true than reality; in them we behave as our true selves – if we have a soul it is there. View quote
Berthe Morisot
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's. View quote
William James
These five rules [above] form all that is necessary to render proofs convincing, immutable, and to say all, geometrical; and the eight rules together render them even more perfect. View quote
Blaise Pascal