Quotes About Consensus

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

The world worked because people agreed to believe it worked.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

Sociologist James Evan reviewed citations in more than thirty-four million articles published in academic journals and noted how the number of different citations declined after the advent of search engines. These information-filtering tools, he observed, "serve as amplifiers of popularity, quickly establishing and then continually reinforcing a consensus about what information is important and what isn't."36

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

Consensus: "The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?

Consensus is the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects. - Margaret Thatcher.

Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.

Obviously it takes eight brains to come to one decision in this crowd. Good thing they have one another.

In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.

I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program.

Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.

Democracy means decision by those concerned.

Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

I don't care how much you may think they're funny or how interesting they may sound. If we nominate someone that 40 to 50 percent of our party doesn't - can't stand, we are going to lose.

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.

From the suites of Davos to the streets of Seattle, there is a growing consensus that globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.

es imposible contentar a todos antes que con un coro afirmativo es mejor que nos digan un quién sabe

absolutes in performance benchmarks are as elusive as consensus in open source projects!

We cannot criticise global warming sceptics for denying the scientific consensus on climate when we ignore the same consensus on both the safety and the beneficial uses of nuclear power and genetic engineering.

We men had a meeting a long time ago, and we all decided, 'It's trousers'. And that's what we've worn ever since.

Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.