“Normality is merely a matter of consensus; that is, a lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Of course, we will face fear, experience ridicule, and meet opposition. Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
There is no doubt in my mind that the literature on climate change overwhelmingly supports the hypothesis that climate change is caused… — Richard Tol Copy Share Image
Bitcoin is a currency, bitcoin is a network, bitcoin is a technology and you can't separate these things. A consensus network that… — Andreas Antonopoulos Copy Share Image
There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
“While the individual contributions provide the “building block” of creativity; it is the collective consensus on what to do with them that… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Consensus and dialogue have always played a significant role, especially in Danish society. Of course there are basic values that must be… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen Copy Share Image
“Rational moral choices are based on the value of life, not a consensus. A consensus can’t make the sun rise at midnight,… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument;… — Wolfgang Thierse Copy Share Image
Ever since Sir Isaac Newton's times, scientists have worked in the same sort of way: They show a great respect for experiment… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of researchers : those that have implemented something and those that have not. The latter will tell you… — David Cheriton Copy Share Image
Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does… — John Major Copy Share Image
There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of… — Douglas Hurd Copy Share Image
Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The rise of the Net and the Web represents a victory for the counterculture and the subculture. The next generation, raised on… — R. U. Sirius Copy Share Image
Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The debate's over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result,… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
If a consensus of the majority is all it takes to determine what is right, then having and controlling information becomes extraordinarily… — Masamune Shirow Copy Share Image
Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“If someone asks you why you're oppressing a world and you reply with a lot of poetic crap, no. I guess there… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in our ability to come up with the ideas necessary to solve the big questions. I have less… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
People all over this country are shouting at each other. And what we need to do is bring people together to work… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“But perhaps the greatest threat is that we lack the mechanism of consensus, a way of making up our collective minds.” — Robert K. Greenleaf Copy Share Image
President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“the next time you are in a group of people trying to reach consensus, be the asshole. Every group needs one, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
From the suites of Davos to the streets of Seattle, there is a growing consensus that globalization must now be reshaped to… — John J Sweeney Copy Share Image
I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
