Quotes About Consensus

In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can be accepted by everyone.

Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.

There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

Allegedly there was a Google Docs spreadsheet where it was being kept track of, but no one could agree on where it was.

The rough-and-ready intellectual consensus of the mid-Twentieth Century is being pushed out by a New Superstition whose victims can find testimony on the Internet for anything they choose to believe. The only cure for it is reading books, and lots of them.

What was it like when people agreed on facts, you mean?" Enoch asked.

So say we all," she said.

Toda unanimidade é burra.

Without a clear diagnosis of why the candidate or party failed, there can be no clear consensus about how to move forward.

Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

I do think we need to find common ground on some of these major issues facing our nation.

President Putin has been a stealthy reformer yearning for consensus.

Don't take security in the false refuge of consensus.

The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus.

Distrust any speaker who speaks confidently about "we," or speaks in the name of "us." Distrust yourself if you hear these tones creeping into your own style. The search for security and majority are not always the same as solidarity; it can be another name for consensus and tyranny and tribalism. Never forget that, even if there are "masses" to be invoked, or "the people" to be praised, they and it must by definition be composed of individuals.

L'Ur-fascisme croît et cherche le consensus en exploitant et exacerbant la naturelle peur de la différence. Le premier appel d'un mouvement fasciste ou prématurément fasciste est lancé contre les intrus. L'Ur-fascite est donc raciste par définition.

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform ourselves to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

We rarely find any persons of good sense except those who agree with us.

We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.

Medical science had little to offer in the way of prevention or cure, apart from the process of disinfection, notification and isolation as recommended by Dr Niven. There was little consensus on treatment apart from the traditional recourse to bed rest, opiates and folk remedies, while to make matters worse, significant individuals refused to take the threat of Spanish flu seriously.

The Silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybody.

No doctor is better than three.