Consensus Quotes - Page 2

• But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Matter, Opinion

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Tusc. Quæst, I, 13, 30, p. 569-70, 1922.

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• CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior.

  Douglas Coupland

  Attitude, Office, Terrorism

  1991 Generation X,'Quit Recycling the Past'.

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• What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that's what's on your plate. And I think that's a good thing, because we know, obviously, about food.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Years, Next Year

  "Regrets? He's had a few ..." by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2006.

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• There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.

  Paul Ryan

  Party, Health, Government

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Adventure

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• The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Certainty, Exploding, Areas

  Interview with Marcus Fairs, www.iconeye.com. June 2004.

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• In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Order, Social, Regimes

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• Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

  Renata Adler

  People, Community, Quality

  Renata Adler (1970). “Toward a radical middle: fourteen pieces of reporting and criticism”

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• In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

  Michael Crichton

  Results, Relevant, Irrelevant

  "Aliens Cause Global Warming". Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003.

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• What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?

  Margaret Thatcher

  Downing Street, Causes, Banner

  Speech at Monash University, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 6, 1981.

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• The key to any successful plan is buy-in from the public, and what this process has demonstrated is the importance of including citizens in formulating a consensus plan that preserves our beautiful refuge.

  Ron Kind

  Beautiful, Successful, Keys

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• Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.

  Martin Chemnitz

  Father, Scripture, Praise

  Martin Chemnitz (1971). “Examination of the Council of Trent”

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• The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.

  Howard Fineman

  Country, War, Media

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• There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.

  Douglas Hurd

  War, Rights, Agreement

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• The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.

  Eisaku Sato

  Japan, People, Desire

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

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Essentials, Transformation, Social

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• But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision.

  Danny Glover

  Thinking, Keys, People

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• The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Writing, Expression, Order

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• Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.

  Herman Kahn

  Important, Wheels, Helping

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.260, Lexington Books

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• Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

  John McCain

  Political Differences, Matter, Conviction

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.

  Pat Robertson

  Country, Thinking, Erosion

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• America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.

  Charles Schumer

  America, Together

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• I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.

  Austan Goolsbee

  Believe, People, Political

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• There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Party, Believe, Mean

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• 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

  Believe, People, Doe

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