Consensus Quote by Christopher Hitchens Download Open image “Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus.” — Christopher Hitchens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consensus Cybersecurity Inspirational Refuge Security
“All forms of consensus are by necessity based on acts of exclusion” — Chantal Mouffe Copy Share Image
Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one… — Margaret Thatcher 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 the matter… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others will keep us permanently secure. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“If you can bring dissent and disagreement to a common understanding of what the decision is all about, you create unity in action, and… — Joseph A. Maciariello Copy Share Image
Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time bathing in a glow of consensus but you also have to be willing to say something to people… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion. — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
If you're not exposing yourself to a non-consensus view somehow over the course of a day, you can reject them, but you should expose… — Ken Moelis Copy Share Image
“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It isn’t so long since a test of Anglican orthodoxy was applied to anyone seeking to study or teach at Oxford and Cambridge universities.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic — Scott Belsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus. — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
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 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 the future… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with… — Will Self Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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