Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.
All through the centuries scholars and scientists have been imprisoned, tortured and burned alive for some discovery which seemed to conflict with a petty text of Scripture. Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in the hybrid-rather than be represented by plus or minus signs, and put several seasons into throwing doubt upon the concept of immutable hypothetical units of inheritance concocted to account for selected results.
My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.
Being gay is immutable. Maybe someday we'll figure out more of the science and it will be changeable, but we have no leads so far.
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.
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
As much as we have free choice, absolute destiny is immutable. What is meant to happen does, through one measure or another.
There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.
God made thee perfect, not immutable.
There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant.
Passions change, politics are immutable.
In your world everything must have a beginning and an end. If it does not, you call it eternal. In my view, there is no such thing as beginning and end - these are all related to time. Timeless being is entirely in the now. Being and not-being alternate and their reality is momentary. The immutable Reality lies beyond space and time.
God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.
Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
Sometime we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course
