Consensus Quotes · Page 5

One of my great experiences in life was to be interviewed on a late-night talk show by a guy named Tom Snyder.…

— John Shelby Spong

The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ...…

— E. O. Wilson

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

— Gale Norton

Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they…

— William A. Dembski

What shocks me is people who have no expertise championing a view that runs counter to the mainstream scientific consensus.

— Simon Singh

Summits [World Summit on the Information Society] are meant to help governments reach a global consensus on major issues which has proved…

— David Souter

Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences…

— Stephen Covey

We need to codify our values and build consensus around what we want from a free society and a free Internet. We…

— Heather Brooke

The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent,

— Seth Klarman

This is the deadening consensus that crosses party lines, that dominates our major media, and that is strangling the liberty and prosperity…

— Ron Paul

I don't think my comedy is that political. It's more social. But whatever. When you make comedy and you do stand-up, you…

— Chris Rock

We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a…

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

“There are not enough purple states. No one votes in primaries, except the most ideological. And big money comes in to support…

— Evan Bayh

But whatever the consensus on the EMH, I know of no serious academic, professional money manager, trained security analyst, or intelligent individual…

— John C. Bogle

You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Senate is predicated and based…

— Olympia Snowe

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that…

— Michael Crichton

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got…

— Colin Powell

To deliver Brexit we need to find a consensus in the party.

— Penny Mordaunt

Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.

— Clay Buchholz

Science is science. Science is what is. After discovery, tests, trial, if a consensus of scientists today said that the sun orbits…

— Rush Limbaugh

When I go to the movies, and I have to sit through ten previews of films that look [alike] and tell the…

— Oliver Stone

If a consensus of the majority is all it takes to determine what is right, then having and controlling information becomes extraordinarily…

— Masamune Shirow

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

— Terry Pratchett

Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with…

— Paul Krugman

The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of…

— Anna Garlin Spencer