Consensus Quotes · Page 5

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.

— Gary Cooper

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

— Anonymous

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

— John Negroponte

Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.

— Simon Mainwaring

You will be most effective when members can complement each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear.

— Peter R. Scholtes

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

— Abba Eban

Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork.

— William Schutz

The biggest issue with perfect is that there is not one definition; not even a clear consensus.

— T Jay Taylor

Consciousness, there are about 20,000 papers on consciousness with no consensus. Nowhere in history have so many people devoted so much time…

— Michio Kaku

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

— Timothy Noah

When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: ‘It happened.’ Thereafter, there is little consensus, which at first…

— Simon Conway Morris

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus. Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a…

— Reid Hoffman

Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some…

— Eric Alterman

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive…

— Terry Pratchett

It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place.

— DeForest Soaries

“consensus fallacy—the idea that if many people believe something, some position, or some ideology, it must be true. Consensus”

— MJ DeMarco

Our civilization is facing a radical, imminent mass change. The alternative to the hierarchical power structure is based on mutual aid and…

— Jeremy Hammond

Mass delusion is the result of the effort. Propaganda is one of the techniques. But it mentioned things like you create a…

— Rush Limbaugh

Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to…

— Norman Cousins

Did you know that there is growing scientific consensus that one of the most common types of sugar, fructose, can be toxic…

— Lee Labrada

There was a hemispheric conference in Colombia. It couldn't reach a consensus, so there was no declaration that came out, [but] on…

— Noam Chomsky

As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before…

— Nelson Mandela

The UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an…

— Nelson Mandela

The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study…

— Timothy Noah

Confronted with the loving-sharing Consensus of subject-SUBJECT relationships all Authoritarianism must vanish. The Fairy Family Circle, co-joined in the shared vision of…

— Harry Hay

Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of…

— Elaine Pagels

In a few more days we will celebrate Xmas, the day we commemorate the birth of you-know-who. ...It seems the modern consensus…

— Joseph Sobran

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“And what is consensus? It means a majority of the individuals in a society coming together and agreeing to make their values…

— Peter Kreeft

People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good…

— William Bennett

The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as…

— David Edward

Shari'a is not just the Qur'an, you see Shari'a is comprised according to all the doctrines. There's consensus and analogy - argument…

— Sadakat Kadri

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

— Peter Mandelson

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

— Deena Metzger

Consensus is something you have if you cannot have agreement.

— Forbes Burnham

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

— Gloria Naylor

The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception.

— Marco Rubio

“Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers.”

— Kenneth A. Bruffee

I'm worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end.

— David Bodanis

The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.

— Al Gore