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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.

I've learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn't be trying to write a book that appeals to the consensus. — Miguel Syjuco

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

There was a time when everyone thought that Earth was flat. Did this unanimous consensus make any difference to the shape of Earth? — Ali Sina

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

America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus. — Chuck Schumer

Building and maintaining consensus while collaborating is the hardest part of building software. — Russell Jurney

I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates. — Chuck Grassley

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

You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction — Bill Gurley

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

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus. — D.T. Max

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

Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource. — Fred Brooks

The absence of consensus does not mean an absence of truth — Hadley Arkes

More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation. — David Korten

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

consensus fallacy - the idea that if many people believe something, some position, or some ideology, it must be true. Consensus — MJ DeMarco

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

Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power. — Gloria Naylor

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

I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn't resolve them. — Edi Rama

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually. — Abba Eban

The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science. — Al Gore

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

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history. — David Douglass

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision. — Narendra Modi

Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments. — Mason Cooley

We need an assembly, not for cleverness, but for setting things straight. — William Golding

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable. — Bill Gates

I don't accept ideologies that are not a product of consensus. I don't have an ideology, but I do have a sense of what's right and what's wrong. — Ruben Blades

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. — Michael Crichton

The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent, — Seth Klarman

After all, what is truth but the consensus of memories of reliable witnesses? — K.J. Parker

I believe the general consensus is the bigger it is, the more women flock to you. I guess its a good thing mine is HUGE! — Zach Braff

It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have. — Jesse Ball

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

Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. — Michael Crichton

Newspaper accounts must not only be studied, but, occasionally refuted. — Harold Holzer

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

England's civil war had ended in a consensus as the English discovered that they hated foreigners more than they hated their own countrymen. — Len Deighton

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

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer. — Norman Mailer

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 role of the comedian is to say 'Wait a minute' when a consensus starts to form. — Bill Hicks

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all. — Gary Cooper

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it. — John Major

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