Quotes about Consensus
We are all Federalists, and we are all Republicans.
- Thomas Jefferson
Where the many are, there is security; what the many believe must of course be true; what the many want must be worth striving for, and necessary, and therefore good.
- Carl Jung
We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.
- Frederick Douglass
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.
- Thomas Jefferson
The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.
- Martin Van Buren
Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.
- Charles Dickens
The Cabinet makes collective decision and when the Cabinet speaks it speaks with one voice.
- James Cleverly
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
As a young person, I wanted everyone to agree with me.
- Henry Rollins
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.
- Rick Warren
Truth is not determined by a majority vote.
- Pope Benedict XVI