Quotes About Consensus

la mayoría de los expertos coincide en que el movimiento más efectivo es en dirección de pies a cabeza de la silla mecedora y no el de lado a lado de la cuna mecedora).

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

government could be the best candidate to create a "consensus space," bringing relevant actors together to brainstorm and implement innovation projects.

No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Almost all empires were created by force, but none can be sustained by it. Universal rule, to last, needs to translate force into obligation. Otherwise, the energies of the rulers will be exhausted in maintaining their dominance at the expense of their ability to shape the future, which is the ultimate task of statesmanship. Empires persist if repression gives way to consensus.

Almost all empires were created by force, but none can be sustained by it. Universal rule, to last, needs to translate force into obligation. Otherwise, the energies of the rulers will be exhausted in maintaining their dominance at the expense of their ability to shape the future, which is the ultimate task of statesmanship. Empires persist if repression gives way to consensus. So

Quanto à questão da necessidade de derrubar a ordem mundial vigente, islamitas de ambos os lados da trincheira – sunitas e xiitas – estão geralmente de acordo.

Relations between China and the United States need not - and should not - become a zero-sum game ... Key issues on the international front are global in nature. Consensus may prove difficult, but confronation on these issues is self-defeating.

The most precious secret has been leaked: There is no Opposition!

Under our form of government we count, we do not weigh, opinion. The fact, therefore, that a certain sound principle may long be recognized as such by an economic-informed few is of little consequence. If the majority is wrong in its thinking, then the direction of the whole is more than likely to be equally wrong.

The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed.

I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus.

The scientific consensus is that climate change is real, urgent, and caused by humans. This science should be both supported and understood by anyone who hopes to lead NASA, one of our nation's top science agencies.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Holiday hiring is only useful if you get the right people, and the consensus among HR professionals is that the most consistent and efficient means of finding good people is to use word of mouth. Namely, this is because focusing on referrals means that only people who are already within your network will apply.

Decentralized consensus technology will reach the mainstream when products are built that both empower consumers to take control of their own data and also offer users great UXs.

If a whole bunch of users want a specific feature, and we think that feature is pretty cool, too, that that's just what we'll do.

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus. Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.

It's always valuable for someone running for president... to have as much bipartisan support as possible.

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

Table 1.2. Factors related to the outcomes of national crises 1. National consensus that one's nation is in crisis 2. Acceptance of national responsibility to do something 3. Building a fence, to delineate the national problems needing to be solved 4. Getting material and financial help from other nations 5. Using other nations as models of how to solve the problems 6. National identity

There is a perverse stubbornness in preserving a space of ill-will, of rejection of the world and the political order. But also justified aversion for the idea of our collective assumption into the firmament of the operational, of general, simulated reconciliation. We already have to few enemies. In this age of socialist synergy, do we also have to cultivate consensus?

As a result. the more the hegemony of the global consensus is reinforced. the greater the risk, or the chances, of its collapse.

No se debe confundir la verdad con la opinión de la mayoría.