Consensus Quotes

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

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.

The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.

That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach.

There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

The role of the comedian is to say 'Wait a minute' when a consensus starts to form.

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.

For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous.

CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior.

A good design is not a democratic consensus.

Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society.

Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource.

Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.

Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.

The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.

Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is a miscarriage of democratic procedure.

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.

I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis.

Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against catastrophic climate change.

Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.

It is with great satisfaction that I learned of the adoption by consensus of the Durban Declaration against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and the intolerance associated with it

My job will not be easy but I am convinced the problems will be solved in a quicker and more efficient way if there is unity and consensus.

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.

Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people.

The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country.

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

The debate's over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.

We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking economic efficiency with social protection, has broken down

[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.

In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community.

There is a growing consensus that the European systems have worked better than the American: They have been able to deliver better health care to more people at lower cost.

Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.

I think a big misconception about GMOs is that there is a scientific consensus on their safety.

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

Religion is insanity by consensus.

Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science.

Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership.

We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code.

Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do.