Consensus Quote by Recep Tayyip Erdogan

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan…

— Germaine Greer

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down…

— Walter Lippmann

Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.

— Reid Hoffman

The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed strategy that is supported by various policy tools, and…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.

— Natan Sharansky

“We live in a time that demands a discourse of both critique and possibility, one that recognizes that without an informed citizenry, collective struggle,…

— Henry A. Giroux

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

— Christopher Hitchens

Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.

— Bertrand de Jouvenel

“DEMOCRACY is a form of leading state in which the right and power" must be in the hands of the people and absolutely must…

— Khem Veasna

“We will refer to political institutions that are sufficiently centralized and pluralistic as inclusive political institutions. When either of these conditions fails, we will…

— Daron Acemoğlu