Quotes About Consensus

You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.

For any trade deal to move forward, there has to be agreement.

There was a time when people thought that if you piled a bunch of mortgages together, the top of the pile was AAA. There are a lot of things that become consensus.

One topic which often brings liberals and conservatives together in the U.S. is Iran. There is a general consensus that the Revolution was the embodiment of backwardness and barbarism.

Lincoln said, public sentiment is everything. We have to listen to the people and come together as we prioritize our agenda and go forward.

I'm always looking for an opportunity to bring progressive Democrats together with some conservative libertarian types, because there are places where we can agree.

You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

Ric placed his elbows on his desk and rested his chin in the palms of his hand. "So, let me sum up - we've got one vote for total annihilation and one vote for forcing them to join the hockey team. Am I correct?" "Yes," both females replied.

When like-minded men who are all dedicated and committed to the same cause have a difference of opinion, that just means we need more information," President Nelson explained. "We don't need to debate it longer at that point, we need to go back and study it more and gather more information, because we don't yet have enough information to agree.

The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written some dating it as early as the year 68, others as late as the year 98 but it is generally conceded to have been written after all the others.

Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.

Great minds think alike.

We chart delusions through collective agreement.

Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.