Quotes About Consensus

I do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion.

It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have windows, and not fall over.

A funeral was a thing they understood; dissent was something they did not.

If we are to put an end to division, people from all political persuasions will have to stop fighting one another and seek true unity, not just a consensus that benefits one party.

Political correctness has thrown a veil of silence over our important discussions. Rather than asking those with whom we disagree to clearly state their case, we set up rules of political correctness that mandate that their perspective must be the same as ours. We then demonize those with whom we disagree and as a result fail to reach any consensus that might solve our problems.

Compromise is most likely when both parties respect each other no matter how much they disagree. In stressful situations where you need a consensus, respect sometimes means saying nothing and refraining from name-calling even when irritated.

You are neither right nor wrong because people agree with you.

Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.

This argument, expressed in Latin—which is held to make any nonsense respectable—has been erected by the Catholic Church into a first principle: that we cannot err in believing what has been believed always, everywhere, and by everybody. Those who use this argument conveniently forget how many once universal beliefs are now discarded.

And where a solution appears possible, the new logic provides a method which enables us to obtain results that do not merely embody personal idiosyncrasies, but must command the assent of all who are competent to form an opinion.

Republicans - well, we're all part of the same family. We need to have some good disagreements with each other; we need to debate, but in the end, it's all about uniting, not dividing.

I have a long, long record of working with Democrats and Republicans alike.

Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.

To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.

Creating a nation requires the will of the people!

It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.

When it comes to major decisions in any area of the organization, I like to get the blessings of the shareholders - of which my siblings are the majority - and build a consensus even if it isn't something that all of them agree on.

Factions are a sign of illness in a party.

Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent.

Bands work in a way where everyone, at some point, has to have a similar idea of how you do things.

Where unity is missing between individuals, the resolution may be simple, but where diversity of interest is dictated by the underlying social, economic, political, or other structure of an interaction or relation, the problem of consensus and cooperation can become correspondingly complex.

money is a matter of faith—as thirty-six inches are a yard only because multitudes agree to that measure of length and keep that agreement." If the agreement was broken, "faith was gone, and any tangible thing to eat, to wear, to shelter one's body from the weather was more valuable than any number of pieces of paper, which were only symbols of a lost faith.

La raíz de los males del mundo es que nadie se pone de acuerdo en qué es eso.

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.