Quotes About Consensus

Today there is virtually a consensus... that Jesus came on the scene with an unheard of authority, with the claim of the authority to stand in God's place and speak to us and bring us to salvation. With regard to Jesus there are only two possible modes of behavior: either to believe that in him God encounters us or to nail him to the cross as a blasphemer. Tertium non datur. [There is no third way.]2

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependent upon popular opinion?

A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.

As I like to say, it's important to be right at the end of a meeting, not at the beginning.

Supremely rational investors take the further step of acting against consensus, rebalancing to long-term portfolio targets by buying the out-of-favor and selling the in-vogue.

It's as if the endless labour of achieving consensus maska a constant inner violence - or, it might perhaps be better to say, is in fact the process by which that inner violence is measured and contained - and it is precisely this, and the resulting tangle of moral contradiction, which is the primal fornt of social creativity.

For a very long time, the intellectual consensus has been that we can no longer ask Great Questions. Increasingly, it's looking like we have no other choice.

if no compulsion was allowed, then obviously such social coherence as did exist had to be created through reasoned debate, persuasive arguments and the establishment of social consensus.

For a very long time, the intellectual consensus has been that we can no longer ask Great Questions. Incearingly, it's looking like we have no other choice.

It was last year as it is this year, and it will be the same next year. That details about diet are debated at the frontiers of our knowledge does nothing to alter the landscape of the far more copious common ground. 2,3

the consensus of modern sociology is at presuppositional variance with our Christian view of society. Sociology is one product of a world whose values and structures have been relativized. It is a product of the nineteenth-century rejection of a Christian world-view [sic]. It has assumed an authority of its own using 'society' as its only frame of reference.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Where God is, all agree.

The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.

What use is a good thought if no one agrees with it?

I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're getting a consensus around what needs to be done.

Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.

... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled.

The problem is: When two governments or institutions in Europe hold differing opinions, it is immediately a crisis.

Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.