Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that…

There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can…

— Margaret Thatcher

The "family" has clearly emerged anew in the late 1970s as a central subject for discussion, debate, research and writing in bothscholarly and popular…

— Sheila Kamerman

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

— Nelson Mandela

The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic

— Scott Belsky

The scientific consensus is that climate change is real, urgent, and caused by humans. This science should be both supported and understood by anyone…

— Brian Schatz

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

— William Bennett

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

— Simon Mainwaring

Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

The culturally, linguistically and religiously diverse population of Indian and Pakistani-administered Jammu and Kashmir has been unable to reach a consensus on the future…

— Nyla Ali Khan

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

— Andre Glucksmann

That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with…

— Will Self

Our normal expectations about reality are created by a social consensus. We are taught how to see and understand the world. The trick of…

— Carlos Castaneda

I always worked as an individual artist even when Group Material asked me to join the group. There are certain things that I can…

— Felix Gonzalez-Torres

“But perhaps the greatest threat is that we lack the mechanism of consensus, a way of making up our collective minds.”

— Robert K. Greenleaf

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