Quotes About Consensus

It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

When more and more people want something, it becomes easier to achieve that goal.

We have certain differences over the ways to pursue our goals, but our final aims coincide, in my opinion.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree

True love is when your heart and your minds are saying the same thing.

My vehement distaste for Reaganism and Thatcherism is joined to 35.2 million Americans who voted against Reagan in 1980 (out of a total 76.5 million votes cast) and 37.5 million Americans who did likewise in 1984; and allied with 57.8% of the British electorate who voted against Mrs. Thatcher in 1987. Plus 56.1% anti-Thatcherites in 1979 and 57.6% in 1983. That is quite a lot of consensus repugnance.

It's hard to make a proper argument when you're both on the same side.

Wolves eat dogs." That did seem to be the consensus of the village, Arkady thought. Roman shook his head as if he'd given the matter a lot of consideration. "Wolves hate dogs. Wolves hunt down dogs because they regard them as traitors. If you think about it, dogs are dogs only because of humans; otherwise they'd all be wolves, right? And where will we be when all the dogs are gone? It will be the end of civilization.

a process by which we co-ordinate our ideas, define the meaning of the words we use, grasp the difference between essential and unessential factors, and fix and expose the fundamental data on which everyone is agreed. In this way we prepare the apparatus of practical discussion…. Without such an apparatus no two men can even think on the same line; much less can they ever hope to detach the real point of difference that divides them and isolate it for quiet solution.

Nor should the basic elements of this program be imperiled by partisanship.

A los hombres siempre les ha gustado mucho reunirse y discutir, y hacer ver que toman decisiones consensuadas que van a convertir el planeta en un lugar mejor. Luego viene la realidad, y les derrota.

Sallust was particularly eloquent on the theme. In his other surviving essay, on a war against the North African king Jugurtha at the end of the second century BCE, he reflects on the dire consequences of the destruction of Carthage: from the greed of all sections of Roman society ('every man for himself'), through the breakdown of consensus between rich and poor, to the concentration of power in the hands of a very few men. These all pointed to the end of the Republican system.

The New England Jornal of Medicine reports that nine out of ten doctors agree that one out of ten doctors is an idiot.

are we going to teach the best of what we currently know about the world (however provisional such knowledge may be), or shall we decide if the earth is flat or round by majority consensus?

There is an emerging consensus among exercise scientists that runners and other endurance athletes invariably encounter a limit to how much suffering they are willing to tolerate before they encounter any hard physical limit (such as their true VO2max

Am I making this decision because it's smart or because a majority says it's smart?

I nijedno zlo ne može postati dobro, zato što ga prihvata ve?ina.

Teško ?e se sporazumeti dva ?ovjeka koji misle razli?ito. - Lako ?e se sporazumeti dva ?ovjeka koji misle.

Discord says it's a good idea. That's comforting.

The role of democracy is not to banish disagreement but rather to prevent political disagreements from devolving into armed conflict.

Negotiating success means proactively engaging with your new boss to shape the game so that you have a fighting chance of achieving desired goals. Many new leaders just play the game, reactively taking their situation as given—and failing as a result. The alternative is to shape the game by negotiating with your boss to establish realistic expectations, reach consensus, and secure sufficient resources. By negotiating effectively with Vaughan, Michael laid the foundation for his success.