Consensus Quotes
Consensus Quote of the day
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.
History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice. When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus, and provide leadership, the American people will follow.
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.
For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do more than return to that sensible, cooperative approach.
There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.
Conversation doesn’t have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; it’s enough that it helps people get used to one another
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
If consensus is overrated, I think balance is, too. I have no interest in living a balanced life. I want a life of adventure.
Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.
The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent.
Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.
I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.
More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.
People all over this country are shouting at each other. And what we need to do is bring people together to work on the agreement where there is broad consensus and that's what I intend to do.
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.
There is a growing consensus that Globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.
there is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to “do well” in the world instead of living well.
Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.
In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.
Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.
To make sure our convictions, views, and assumptions about our Creator stay based on biblical truth and not on popular consensus, we must continually check what we believe against the Scriptures.
I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.
Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago.
The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.
All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.
I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you become bulletproof.
The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
There is no consensus in Israel regarding the two-state formula. We will not, under any circumstances, allow the establishment of a neighboring state that will be a genuine threat on our existence.
But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.
The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view.
Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.
The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.
Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.
If a consensus of the majority is all it takes to determine what is right, then having and controlling information becomes extraordinarily important.
No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.
When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: ‘It happened.’ Thereafter, there is little consensus, which at first sight must seem rather odd.
