What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'? — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code. — David D. Clark Copy Share Image
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually. — Abba Eban Copy Share Image
“In ambiguous situations, it's a good bet that the crowd will generally stick together – and be wrong.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The industrial world enjoys a rare combination of growth and low inflation; the 'Washington consensus,' a model of economic development that emphasizes… — Zanny Minton Beddoes Copy Share Image
Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important… — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
It's a consensus that Trump, as the nominee, guarantees the election of Hillary Clinton. I'll guarantee you there's not a single Donald… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The key to any successful plan is buy-in from the public, and what this process has demonstrated is the importance of including… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker to control… — David Nabarro Copy Share Image
Resist the temptation to ascribe motive, because you really don't know - and it gets in the way of being able to… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The culturally, linguistically and religiously diverse population of Indian and Pakistani-administered Jammu and Kashmir has been unable to reach a consensus on… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
I talked on my blog recently about "uncommon sense." Common sense is called "common" because it reflects cultural consensus. It's common sense… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
To enable consensus politics to develop we need to empower people where they live. This means devolving financial resources and political power… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of it, one… — Tom Wicker Copy Share Image
Summits [World Summit on the Information Society] are meant to help governments reach a global consensus on major issues which has proved… — David Souter Copy Share Image
An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
How do I know that I know this, except that I've always been taught this and never heard anything else? [...] How… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Fanaticism can often be a normalized phenomenon, and the unwritten recipe suggests that it starts and ends with absolute certainty. If you… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“What has typically happened over the past two hundred years is the slow emergence of a concept as a gradual, evolutionary exercise… — Edward Shorter Copy Share Image
The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time to have… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The Shah regarded politics as the province of demagoguery, an art in which only charlatans could excel. He had no time for… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
Comedy is a weird thing. You have to understand, it's the weirdest thing you can do. There's no consensus. It's not like...… — Martin Short Copy Share Image
Science is science. Science is what is. After discovery, tests, trial, if a consensus of scientists today said that the sun orbits… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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