Quotes About Consensus

White men tell us: Vote, bantu! They tell us: You do not all have to agree, ce n'est pas nécessaire! If two men vote yes and one says no, the matter is finished. Á bu, even a child can see how that will end. It takes three stones in the fire to hold up the pot. Take one away, leave the other two, and what? The pot will spill into the fire.

When you hear the same story everywhere you look and listen, you assume it must be true.

When you hear the same story everywhere you look and listen, you assume it must be true. And the more people believe it's true, the more likely they are to repeat it, and thus the more likely you are to hear it. This is how inaccurate information can create a bandwagon effect, leading quickly to a broad, but mistaken, consensus.

7. This is a consensus view among scholars today. For one thing, Matthew used Mark as a source for many of his stories, copying out the Greek word for word in some passages. If our Matthew was a Greek translation of a Hebrew original, it would not be possible to explain the verbatim agreement of Matthew with Mark in the Greek itself.

I have often wondered what would have happened if Paul and Matthew had been locked up in a room together and told they could not come out until they had hammered out a consensus statement on how followers of Jesus were to deal with the Jewish law. Would they ever have emerged, or would they still be there, two skeletons locked in a death grip? If

A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.

You can only achieve Win/Win solutions with Win/Win processes—the end and the means are the same.

Running with the herd means we are quick to embrace the status quo, slow to change our minds, and happy to delegate our thinking.

But running with the herd means we are quick to embrace the status quo, slow to change our minds, and happy to delegate our thinking.

certain facts are objectively true just because people act as if they are true. [...] a social fact depends entirely on the willingness of people to treat it as a fact.

A shared belief system, partly psychological, partly acted out, simplifies everyone—in their own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Shared beliefs simplify the world, as well, because people who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.

Public opinion doesn't exist. More precisely, it exists sometimes, concerning matters about which there's a clear majority view.

The average American thinks there are plenty of non-worthwhile federal programs that are wasting our money and is ready and willing to put them on the chopping block to make ends meet. The problem is, there's no consensus on which programs are the worthless ones.

Las gentes no suelen ponerse de acuerdo si no es en cosas un poco bellacas o un poco tontas.

Porque las gentes no suelen ponerse de acuerdo si no es en cosas un poco bellacas o un poco tontas.

Lo especifico, lo constitutivo de la opinión colectiva es que su existencia no depende de que sea o no aceptada por un individuo determinado.

En resolución, únicamente donde los ciudadanos piensan cada uno sus pensamientos, podremos esperar ponernos alguna vez de acuerdo, al paso que donde todos piensan a una no hay acuerdo posible en las opiniones, por la sencilla razón de que nadie opina y todos tienen uno o varios magistrados que se encargan de pensar por ellos.

From the Founding Era onward, there was strong consensus about the centrality of religious liberty in the United States.

By the early seventeenth century, a new consensus began to arise: the idea that man was born incompetent for society and remained so unless he was provided with 'education.'

Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.

Our political differences, no matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

Contrary to what certain sections of the media have been reporting, there are no differences between Swami Agnivesh, Kiran Bedi and me.

An ethical man doesn't need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds reprehensible.

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.