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I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Protest poetry could there be consensus poetry? — William Stafford
If a consensus of the majority is all it takes to determine what is right, then having and controlling information becomes extraordinarily important.
— Masamune Shirow
Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.
— John Negroponte
The consensus was that I was an elitist, which is a right-wing term for someone smarter than you.
— Steve Almond
Consensus is the absence of leadership.
— Margaret Thatcher
Law, rather than harnessing the passions, is increasingly pressed into their service.
— George F. Will
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
The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.
— Harold Holzer
Consensus building doesn't necessarily fit with my experience.
— Raymond Kelly
Our love for our country is worth nothing if it deprives us of our sense of humanity, if it destroys positive consensus.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Building and maintaining consensus while collaborating is the hardest part of building software.
— Russell Jurney
Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers.
— Kenneth A. Bruffee
Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.
— Hugo Chavez
Consensus doesn't happen by magic ... You have to drive to it.
— Christine Quinn
There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
— Ward Churchill
Teams do not seek consensus; they seek the best answer.
— Jon Katzenbach
Any racial justice movement, to be successful, must vigorously challenge the public consensus that underlies the prevailing system of control. Nooses,
— Michelle Alexander
An economists' consensus is perhaps more a rarity than a regularity. But when it happens, we need to pause and take stock.
— Dani Rodrik
If someone asks you why you're oppressing a world and you reply with a lot of poetic crap, no. I guess there can't be a meeting of minds.
— Roger Zelazny
The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic
— Scott Belsky
If consensus is overrated, I think balance is, too.I have no interest in living a balanced life.
I want a life of adventure. — Chris Guillebeau
The absence of consensus does not mean an absence of truth
— Hadley Arkes
If we had a consensus we wouldn't have to go to a referendum.
— George Papandreou
Normal is not an opinion, it is a consensus.
— Isabella Carter
My job will not be easy but I am convinced the problems will be solved in a quicker and more efficient way if there is unity and consensus.
— Lucas Papademos
The unmistakable miracle: there is a consensus.
— Thomas C. Oden
You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.
— Martin O'Malley
Each price is a momentary consensus of value of all market participants expressed in action.
— Anonymous
There was more than safety in Charles' numbers: there was consensus, there was culture, there was reality.
— Adrian Barnes
I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.
— Stephanie Herseth
I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.
— Margaret Thatcher
Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership.
— Charlotte Beers
The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.
— Rem Koolhaas
The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
— Alan Greenspan
The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
— Larry Gagosian
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
— Abba Eban
We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.
— Hillary Clinton
Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.
— Glenn Greenwald
A good design is not a democratic consensus.
— Edward De Bono
The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent,
— Seth Klarman
There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.
— David Romtvedt
The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.
— Eisaku Sato
I think a big misconception about GMOs is that there is a scientific consensus on their safety.
— Zoe Lister-Jones
Consensus is something you have if you cannot have agreement.
— Forbes Burnham
decision by consensus is inherently conservative.
— Raghuram G. Rajan
There's a general consensus of opinion that people in love are apt to look silly except to each other. — Patricia Wentworth
Up until 'Bridesmaids', the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer.
— Judd Apatow
Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
— Margaret Thatcher
Party animosity was concealed under a veil of studied courtesy.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Jousting with an obvious hoodlum couldn't hurt.
— David Pietrusza
Debates educated a nation. That educative function had atrophied during decades of making decisions behind closed doors.
— Robert A. Caro
Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
— Albert Einstein
Common consensus is not thought but wishful thinking.
— Ernst Pawel
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors ... I mean it.
— Margaret Thatcher
Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Grappling for consensus, he noted the general
— Anonymous
Conversation doesn't have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; it's enough that it helps people get used to one another
— Kwame Anthony Appiah
Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.
— Orson Scott Card
A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There's no consensus in the mental health community on how to maintain the sanity of a person whose whole existence is fictional.
— Robert Kroese
I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places.
— Catherine Ashton
Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
— Lloyd Banks
The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception.
— Marco Rubio
Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
— Gary Johnson
There is a growing consensus that Globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.
— John Sweeney
All forms of consensus are by necessity based on acts of exclusion
— Chantal Mouffe
Republicanism was easier to evolve than to define.
— Mark A. Noll