Quotes About Consensus

[Donald Trump] said on MSNBC's Morning Joe program, "My primary consultant is myself." While this may make consensus easy, the range of perspective is dangerously narrow.

Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music.

But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics

Three can hold their peace, if two be away.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Party is organized opinion.

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.

What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.

Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong.

Compromise if not the spice of life is its solidity.

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

Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.

Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?

Vox populi," Belle says. "The voice of the people.