John Marshall

The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. This is the very essence of judicial duty.

American Judge

Bernard de Mandeville

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

English Philosopher

Alex Tabarrok

I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?

Canadian Economist

Mahatma Gandhi

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

Indian Leader

Henri Nouwen

The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

Dutch Clergyman

Thomas Paine

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

English Activist

Marquis de Lafayette

I can assure the Marquis de Chasteler that it is my unalterable determination never to set foot on any territory which acknowledges obedience to His Majesty the King of Bohemia and Hungary.

French Revolutionary

Therese Fowler

Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.

American Author

John Pearson

Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.

British Theologian

Use 'alterable' when something has the ability to change, but hasn't changed yet.

Potential Change

'Alterable' usually implies someone has control over the change, rather than it happening randomly.

Controlled Modification

Even if something is 'alterable,' it does not necessarily mean that changing it is easy or simple.

Not Always Easy

 I'm a dermatologist my day job is saying to people you've got skin cancer it's caused by sunlight don't go in the Sun I actually think a far more important message is that there are benefits as well as risks to sunlight yes sunlight is the is the major alterable

Could the sun be good...

 rather than the eminently alterable result of a prior arrangement, an inherited allocation, of power. As a result of all of this creeping fatalism in public life, we here, particularly in America today,