Quotes About Consensus

What will happen is the bills will start out the way we like them; in order to move them - we'll probably have to make compromises. That's the way the legislative process works when it's functioning.

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well, that's nonsense!' so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense.

A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. But I do believe in bringing people together.

All political order presupposes a pre-political order, a sense that people belong together. And then, of course, they might seek a contract that embodies their togetherness. But the togetherness has to be there.

I always admired the tolerance of my family - you know, that they tolerated my dissension for the family consensus.

Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived from Mervyn Peake. The 'Lord of the Rings' template or the 'Gormenghast' mold.

That consensus was far from complete. In a region where most, and the poorest, farmers were African American, they were ultimately excluded from the Farmers' Alliance and had to build a separate and terribly unequal version, the Colored Alliance. The Farmers' Alliance forced the Knights of Labor to abandon its rule welcoming members of all races as the price of a merger

I was struck by the date Norwegians placed on this change in attitude. The clear consensus: it was around 1980. For Nigerians, too: "When money became everything was in 1985." Egyptians I interviewed identified a similar shift in the 1980s.

In our house DNA means Do Not Argue.

First, in terms of the observations of the cultural anthropologists who developed relativism, the degree of moral diversity is overstated and the high degree of moral consensus is understated.

Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do.

There was a time when everyone thought that Earth was flat. Did this unanimous consensus make any difference to the shape of Earth?

Was there ever a time when the majority was right?

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not.

It's time for us to come together, time for us to come together around this good man [Donald Trump].

What happens in committee if the committee functions, more often than not, not every time but more often than not, a bill comes out with bipartisan support.

When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

Immer, wenn man beginnt die Meinung mit der Mehrheit zu teilen ist es Zeit sich zu besinnen

Ultimately, a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.