Quotes About Consensus

13. 99 percent is a very large percentage. For instance, easily 99 percent of people want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, and the occasional slice of cake for dessert. Surely an arrangement can be made with that niggling 1 percent who disagree.

England's civil war had ended in a consensus as the English discovered that they hated foreigners more than they hated their own countrymen.

all the ways you can say yes, and sprinkle them throughout your daily marital interactions: Yes, that's a good idea. Yes, I'm totally on board. Yes, that looks fun. Couples who make a practice of doing this, he has said, are much more likely to go the distance.

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy.

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

I believe that in both parties, Democrat and Republican, support for Israel is bipartisan, it is strong and it is unwavering, and I don't see that changing.

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.

History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice. When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus, and provide leadership, the American people will follow.

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

If Dems don't stick together, we're going to lose.

There is a broad consensus, not only in the United States but in most of the world, that if you are in an economic downturn, you need to stimulate. Germany seems to be an exception.

The rules that enabled me to compete first went into effect in 2003. They are known as the Stockholm consensus with the IOC, but I think even 10 years ago the world perhaps wasn't ready for an athlete like myself - and perhaps it is not ready now.

Sometimes the crowd is right; often it is wrong. It remains for science to read the balance.

The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have."—John Rawls

What do people agree merely by convention, and what is the truth?' There's a consensus of things that people believe to be true. Maybe the conventions are right, and maybe they're not. And we never want to let a convention be a shortcut for truth. We always need to ask: Is this true? And this is always what I get at with this indirect question: 'Tell me something that's true that very few people agree with you on.

They're both right!

What I mean is," Robert said nervously, "the whole idea of The Wave is that the people in it have to support it. If we're really a community, we all have to agree.

1977 is the year I made my first movie. Shortly after, I was offered quite nice roles in television. The general consensus among everyone was that I'd be out of my mind to do that.

Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.

One of the things about Fleetwood Mac, you gotta say, is that it's not very often that you get everyone to want the same thing at the same time.

I hear what people have said about what they want to see the Opera House used for and what they don't want to see it used for.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

I mean, I didn't feel, as part of Girls Aloud, that my opinion wasn't heard, or they went and did certain things and I had no say, or we had no say.