Quotes about Consensus

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

Unity increases power.

And the whole assembly responded in a loud voice: “Truly we must do as you say!

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’

If people don't weigh in, they can't buy in.

I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the regent's axiom: a leader, he said is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, to realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society.

Well, some teams get paralyzed by their need for complete agreement, and their inability to move beyond debate.

Silence and tacit consensus always, without fail, protect privilege. That is why the privileged are characteristically silencers.

So they said, “We will call the girl and ask her opinion.”

They shall see eye to eye.