consensus Quotes

Russian folk wisdom: \"There is no consensus without a quorum.\"

It\'s not really a popular consensus to sing Sinatra - which I love! And I just think it\'s so cool that he disliked rock n\' roll so much.

Over the centuries, we\'ve moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We\'ve evolved a liberal consensus of what we regard as underpinnings of decent society, such as the idea that we don\'t approve of slavery or discrimination on the grounds of race or sex, that we respect free speech and the rights of the individual. All of these things that have become second nature to our morals today owe very little to religion, and mostly have been won in opposition to the teeth of religion.

There is a broad consensus, not only in the United States but in most of the world, that if you are in an economic downturn, you need to stimulate. Germany seems to be an exception.

What\'s going to happen is that there will be a definite consensus that Europe is not working. The diagnosis will be to shed the currency and keep the rest, or that Europe is not working and a broader rejection - like in the U.K.

At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible.

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 Trump supporter who thinks that.

You ever want to know what consensus and groupthink and conventional wisdom in Washington is, just find what David \"Rodham\" Gergen is saying and you\'ll find out what 99% of \'em are thinking.

There is no science in global warming. \"Mr. Limbaugh, that\'s typical of what you! That\'s the most outrageous statement I\'ve ever heard anybody ever make! No science in global warming?\" Do you know how I know there\'s no science in global warming, folks? Because they tell us a \"consensus of scientists\" agrees that X. There is no consensus in science.

Reconciliation is a national decision that has to be debated and a consensus made among Colombians.

There was a hemispheric conference in Colombia. It couldn\'t reach a consensus, so there was no declaration that came out, [but] on the crucial issues, Canada and the US were totally isolated. The rest of the hemisphere voted one way, and the US and Canada rejected it. So there couldn\'t be a consensus.

Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand.

I am not a consensus politician... This is something that is really very un-Dutch.

I hate consensus. I like confrontation.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground.

Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you\'re being had. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

Obviously, in Catalonia, the constitutional consensus collapsed as a result of the refusal of part of the ruling minority ... the status of an autonomous region.

Blockchain is such an exemplary decentralized project that its reverse side is the complete denial of the crypto-economic consensus. (Anatoly Yurkin)

I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places.

There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.

I've got billions of sparrows to worry about as well as everything else'. So there's the whole idea that whatever it is that you believe, it can never be valid unless you have some consensus reality demonstration.

Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of it, one must accumulate more power to replace it. In financial terms, a dollar must be spent to make a dollar-or two, if things go well.

Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is a miscarriage of democratic procedure.

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, we say what was an error already.

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.

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 is always at the frontiers of ''what is already known.'' Those great books don't only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies.

Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.

Politicians and some of the scientists like to say that there's a consensus now on global warming or the science has been settled, but you have to ask them, what is there a consensus on? Because it really makes a difference. What are you talking about? The only consensus I`m aware of is that it's warmed in the last century. They completely ignore the fact that there's this thing called the Oregon petition that was signed by 19,000 professionals and scientists who don't agree with the idea that we are causing climate ch

Getting faculties to come to a consensus about something that they've never really thought about or had to worry about in their careers before can be a rather slow process and a long process, it certainly was the case at Harvard, and it's the case with most of the general education curricula that I know of, it takes four or five years just to get everybody on board with one idea.