Quotes About Consensus

You can't be rich unless everyone else agrees that you're rich.

As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

I think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America.

This is the new austerity. he said. Flavorless packaging. It appeals to me. I feel like I'm not only saving money but contributing to some kind of spiritual consensus. It's like World War III. Everything is white. They'll take our bright colors away and use them in the war effort.

God has spoken, and when God speaks, the majority has spoken.

If one person tells you you're a horse, they're crazy. If three people tell you you're a horse, there's a conspiracy afoot. If 10 people tell you you're a horse, it's time to buy a saddle." The point is that if several people are telling you the same thing, there is probably some truth in it.

If one person tells you you're a horse , they are crazy. If three people tell you you're a horse, There's conspiracy afoot. If ten people tell you you're a horse,it's time to buy a saddle

When has the majority ever been right? Sure they're convinced—because they don't think things through. Humanity has survived a lot of dooms.

you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, "a distillation of rumor," or, as Napoleon said, "a set of lies generally agreed upon

Nor is the people's judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few.

H]istory is arguably the best method of enlarging experience in such a way as to command the widest possible consensus on what the significance of that experience might be

We don't have a revolution, and we don't have the time for evolution, where does it come from? It must come from some kind of shared experience that everybody agrees with.

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.

What is right is seldom popular and what is popular is seldom right.

I polled several friends to see how much time they would grant between "a blinding, bad time" and a life that has simply become a depressive waste; the consensus was around seven years. This bespeaks the generosity of my friends -- I imagine most Americans would give themselves a year, maybe two, before they castigated themselves into some form of yanking up the bootstraps.

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

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

There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.

That seems reasonable," Lucas said, because it was.

It's not spam if you agree to it," Tony said. "They just won't have much of a choice.

No one wants advice--only corroboration.

For all their talk of democracy, the conquerors worked hard to engineer consensus; and on many critical issues, they made clear that the better part of political wisdom was silence and conformism. So well did they succeed in reinforcing this consciousness that after they left, and time passed, many non-Japanese including Americans came to regard such attitudes as peculiarly Japanese.

The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.