Quotes About Consensus

There has always been this feeling among the religious public of, 'Why can't we all unite?' Shas, UTJ, Jewish Home... But, of course, the differences between the political parties in practice are too big to bridge.

Republicans need to unite to succeed.

My goal is to unite the party, to bring it together.

I have, year after year, been named the most bipartisan member of the whole United States Senate. I have proved my independence.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

There have always been different opinions on some elements of our sanction policy. It will probably stay that way... What is important is that we keep this unity and decide all together.

My job will not be easy but I am convinced the problems will be solved in a quicker and more efficient way if there is unity and consensus.

I find some unity with Ron Paul.

We need a broad government which will make decisions, but not a national unity government, because we are divided from within.

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.

The most conventional statements are both true and welcome.

On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.

I believe a board in a small startup company should never vote on anything.

I believe in everyone staying as they are, and when you meld together, you get something more accurate and democratic.

Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way for restless kids to work off steam; more than a way for chubby kids to burn off calories; more than a frivolous luxury.

Other wartime leaders would do well to imitate his inquisitive approach. They should not look for consensus, and instead should examine differences between advisors, asking them for the reasons for their different views.

Do as most do, and men will speak well of you.

The false consensus effect refers to the tendency for people's own beliefs, values, and habits to bias their estimates of how widely such views and habits are shared by others.

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

Be this as it may, they decided by vote which of the books out of the collection they had made, should be the WORD OF GOD, and which should not. They rejected several; they voted others to be doubtful, such as the books called the Apocrypha; and those books which had a majority of votes, were voted to be the word of God. Had they voted otherwise, all the people since calling themselves Christians had believed otherwise ; for the belief of the one comes from the vote of the other.

There never yet was any truth or principle so irresistibly obvious, that all men believed it at once.

If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: 'Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?' From what I've seen, it's not likely.

People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.