Quotes About Consensus

As the American national consensus shifts from a traditional, God-centered worldview to a secular, man-centered philosophy, perspectives and priorities change. History, however, does not. It may be ignored, reinterpreted, revised, or even concealed, but the historical evidence remains unchanged: America was forged in faith.

If the breadth of perspectives is wide enough to represent the fullest range of views, consensus is unlikely. If consensus is swiftly achieved, it probably means too few voices have been heard.

If you've got plenty of nerve, you're all set, because then you're entitled to do practically anything at all, you've got the majority on your side, and it's the majority who decide what's crazy and what isn't.

and it's the majority who decide what's crazy and what isn't

it's the majority who decide what's crazy and what isn't. Even

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but he needed the approval of a few, to confirm the applause of the others.

It is a necessary precondition for the success of a referendum that there should be broad community consensus and bipartisan support for it.

Our Success or Stagnation depends on the level of Agreement that we have with the people around us.

No entanto, não afirmo que qualquer um que levante a voz contra alguma coisa seja um fanático. Não sugiro que qualquer um que manifeste opiniões veementes seja um fanático, claro que não. Digo que a semente do fanatismo brota ao adoptar-se uma atitude de superioridade moral que impeça a obtenção de consensos.

Ya se sabía cómo funcionaban las operaciones de desestabilización en América latina. Aunque ahora, en los tiempos de un nuevo consenso de Washington, el cerco financiero a AMLO se complementaba con advertencias de que en realidad aquel presidente de izquierdas no representaba los intereses ni siquiera de los más necesitados.

Just start off with the same goals in mind. If you have the same values, same goals then you'll be on track for the same future.

Amid the ashes of stratified society, the egalitarian consensus can arise. But for that to happen, Fritz warns, the disaster must be generalized. Crises of more limited scope tend to have the opposite effect.

You know you're in a bureaucracy when a hundred people who think 'A' get together and compromise on 'B.

Most people think they have perfectly good bullshit detectors. But if that were the case, trial juries would always be unanimous, and we'd all have the same religious beliefs.

When you identify as part of a group, your opinions tend to be biased toward the group consensus.

I have always endeavored to listen to chat each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion" (Mandela - p 31)

In politics the middle way is none at all.

I agree with you, that in Politicks the Middle Way is none at all.

I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.

An idea develops its validity simply because everybody seems to believe it, despite the absence of hard facts.

Americans tell pollsters they want bipartisan cooperation. But those who actually vote don't value that as much—or they define "bipartisanship" as acquiescence by the other party to what their party believes.

Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

The most may err as grossly as the few.