Consensus Quotes

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

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Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Lloyd Banks

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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

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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

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The unraveling of America's long mid-century domestic consensus, which ran from about 1941 to 1966, had begun earlier, under Lyndon B. Johnson.

Greg Grandin

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Humanity will be obsolete by 2050. This is the consensus at Google and Facebook and Twitter.

Alex Jones

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And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense.

Lawrence Halprin

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

Narendra Modi

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Any society that starts forbidding certain words or expressions is a society you should be wary about, whether it's the KGB or social consensus that enforces it.

Stellan Skarsgard

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Up until 'Bridesmaids', the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer.

Judd Apatow

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The consensus of the founders was, we don't want no government: we want limited but effective government.

Chris Gibson

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

Rem Koolhaas

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If we had a consensus we wouldn't have to go to a referendum.

George Papandreou

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Science is really about individual experts reaching a consensus.

Alan Stern

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

Catherine Ashton

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The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

Larry Gagosian

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