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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals. -- Abba Eban
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. -- Michael Crichton
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it. -- Margaret Thatcher
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
A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since. -- Charles de Lint
To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects. -- Margaret Thatcher
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
In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development. -- Jeffrey Sachs
But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward. -- Colin Powell
Consensus negates leadership. -- Margaret Thatcher
Consensus demands communication. -- John Dewey
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Consensus is the negation of leadership. -- Margaret Thatcher
Consensus is the absence of leadership. -- Margaret Thatcher
Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership. -- Charlotte Beers
Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource. -- Fred Brooks
Consensus is something you have if you cannot have agreement. -- Forbes Burnham
Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it. -- Christine Quinn
Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments. -- Mason Cooley
Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. -- Michael Crichton
The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people. -- Eisaku Sato
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 problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern. -- Daniel Dennett
Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock. -- Gale Norton
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. -- Michael Crichton
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 pseudodemocracy has to come down to. -- Germaine Greer
That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well. -- Harri Holkeri
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. -- Josiah Royce
I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy. -- Joe Lieberman
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
Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived from Mervyn Peake. The 'Lord of the Rings' template or the 'Gormenghast' mold. -- Paul Di Filippo
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
During the 1990s the United States sought to impose the 'Washington Consensus' on Latin American governments. It embodied what Latin Americans call 'neo-liberal' principles: budget cuts, privatization, deregulation of business, and incentives for foreign companies. This campaign sparked bitter resistance and ultimately collapsed. -- Stephen Kinzer
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. -- Tom Wicker
Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful. -- Jim Woodring
Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it. -- David Graeber
The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country so that we have a reasoned and thoughtful approach and that the American public buys into it. -- Tom Coburn
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus. -- Margaret Thatcher
Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus. -- Simon Mainwaring
Up until 'Bridesmaids', the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer. -- Judd Apatow
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually. -- Abba Eban
The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding. -- Rem Koolhaas
Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. -- Lloyd Banks
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Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat. -- Rick Perry
The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice. -- Roger Waters
The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states. -- Lester B. Pearson
The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value. -- Timothy Noah
When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well, that's nonsense!' so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense. -- Burt Rutan
I don't want to over generalize, but I believe that women are typically drawn to leadership styles that focus on consensus building, effective listening and working in teams. That's certainly been my leadership style, and I think it's been very successful. -- Margaret Hamburg
Syriza is what it is: a radical, left-wing party that feels the pulse of the times, knows what's at stake, and is after a wide consensus and unity for political change in Greece. This is something that departs from the narrow limits of the radical left. -- Alexis Tsipras
The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades. -- Vladimir Putin
When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born. -- Charles Krauthammer
One of the greatest investments of our lifetime has been New York City real estate, and investors made the highest returns when they bought stuff during the 1970s and 1980s when people were getting mugged. The lesson is that you make the most money when you buy stuff that's out of consensus. -- Mary Meeker
Religion is insanity by consensus. -- Bill Maher
Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus. -- D. T. Max
A good design is not a democratic consensus. -- Edward de Bono
Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry? -- William Edgar
You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction -- Bill Gurley
I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship. -- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship. -- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus. -- Christopher Hitchens
The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience. -- Walter Darby Bannard
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I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician. -- Margaret Thatcher
Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science. -- Burt Rutan
Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing. -- Orson Scott Card
Teams do not seek consensus; they seek the best answer. -- Jon Katzenbach
In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. -- Michael Crichton
To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition. -- Evan Osnos
CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior. -- Douglas Coupland
Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history. -- David Douglass
I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing. -- Christopher Hitchens
I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates. -- Chuck Grassley
There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth. -- Ward Churchill
Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power. -- Gloria Naylor
If we had a consensus we wouldn't have to go to a referendum. -- George Papandreou
Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer. -- Norman Mailer
Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head. -- Albert Einstein
We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code. -- David D. Clark
I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places. -- Catherine Ashton
You pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. -- Warren Buffett
Up until 'Bridesmaids,' the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer. -- Judd Apatow
America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus. -- Chuck Schumer
America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus. -- Chuck Schumer
Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people. -- Stella Blum
What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'? -- Margaret Thatcher
Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do. -- Karin Tidbeck
The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic -- Scott Belsky
I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion. -- Gary Johnson
The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science. -- Al Gore
Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain. -- Peter Mandelson
The role of the comedian is to say 'Wait a minute' when a consensus starts to form. -- Bill Hicks
I think a big misconception about GMOs is that there is a scientific consensus on their safety. -- Zoe Lister-Jones
The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent, -- Seth Klarman
I do believe that there's going to be a pretty strong consensus for a very strong .. censure resolution. -- Paul Wellstone
Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty. -- Hugo Chavez
I'm worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end. -- David Bodanis
Part of what makes music so interesting is the lack of consensus on just about any given topic. -- Michael Hersch
There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus. -- David Romtvedt
A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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 theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art. -- Larry Gagosian
The consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization. -- Graciela Chichilnisky
Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support. -- John Negroponte
The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception. -- Marco Rubio
There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles. -- Anthony Kennedy
There's a general consensus of opinion that people in love are apt to look silly -- except to each other. -- Patricia Wentworth
But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable. -- Bill Gates
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise. -- James Surowiecki
Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
There is a growing consensus that Globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital. -- John Sweeney
For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous. -- Deena Metzger
We saw there was no consensus in the U.N. Security Council. It was impossible, due to the threatened veto by some. -- Jose Maria Aznar
In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community. -- Joseph C. Rost
More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation. -- David Korten

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