Quotes About Consensus

Therefore the Lotus Sutra is like a cool breeze, a gentle rain, assuaging the stifling atmosphere of contention between the conservatives and the progressives.

So we hold endless meetings, everyone is consulted, we discuss everything, and eventually we reach a consensus. Sometimes we even make a decision. Then we go and have a good moan about it all.

First, all deals that close are win-win deals. The two sides would not agree to a proposal unless they thought agreement was better for them than no deal.

If something is good and universally acknowledged to be so, this is not reason enough to dislike it.

They were at that rare moment in a collaboration where they were consistently grokking, where consensus was reached quickly on almost everything.

something is good and universally acknowledged to be so, this is not reason enough to dislike it.

I think my life would be easier, she said, if I could just get my selves to agree on something.

Everyone nodded, nobody agreed.

As a young person, I wanted everyone to agree with me.

I thought everybody unanimously hated this man. I don't know anyone who was like, 'Go Trump.' I was surprised.

Many of us have questions about what Trump's positions really are. We want to make sure we are on board with each other.

By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

Believe it or not, one of the things I try to do around here is try to look for opportunities to work with people across the aisle. I know that's not the common narrative. But the truth is if you want to get anything done, that's an absolute requirement.

People are fed up with the various camps, they want to unite.

People don't want advice...only corroboration.

How can we be isolating ourselves when it's 16 to 3 in NATO for what we want to do?

I want what you want. Whenever you want it.

Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.

Sunrise smiled to himself at hearing Sweetlard try out that Malazan way of talking. 'Aye.' It's a good word, I think. More a whole attitude than a word, really. With lots of meaning in it, too. A bit of 'yes' and a bit of 'well, fuck' and maybe some 'we're all in this mess together'. So, a word to sum up the Malazans. He uttered his own sigh and settled his head back. 'Aye,' he said.

I'd let her sell it to Dad. They tended not to contradict each other so if one of them had already said "yes" it usually meant "yes." If one of them said "no", ditto--which was why I'd asked Mom first.

Reality, truth, and knowledge are matters about which there is less consensus than one might hope.

All individual soulscapes are connected; it is merely a matter of perception and use of a mere potent fume to enter a consensual scape.

Consensual' views of society represent society as if there are no major cultural or economic breaks, no major conflicts of interests between classes and groups. Whatever disagreements exist, it is said, there are legitimate and institutionalised means for expressing and reconciling them.