Consensus Quotes

265 quotes by 230 authors

Our civilization is facing a radical, imminent mass change. The alternative to the hierarchical power structure is based on mutual aid and group consensus. As… — Jeremy Hammond
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern. — Daniel Dennett
The role and weight to be accorded medical testimony in Administrative hearings before the Post Office Department was established....These decisions enunciate a rule that informed… — J. Edward Day
The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people. — Eisaku Sato
I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership… — Joe Lieberman
Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy… — Judy Davis
Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer. — Norman Mailer
Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people… — Gale Norton
Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of… — Russell Kirk
Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership. — Charlotte Beers
I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician. — Margaret Thatcher
Bitcoin is a currency, bitcoin is a network, bitcoin is a technology and you can't separate these things. A consensus network that bases its value… — Andreas Antonopoulos
Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus. — Christopher Hitchens
You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction — Bill Gurley
Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support. — John Negroponte
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromising. An intelligent group, especially… — James Surowiecki
The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social… — Anna Garlin Spencer
Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind… — Susan Sontag
No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error,… — Josiah Royce
There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention. — Jay McInerney

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