Quotes about Consensus

Good decisions don't so much need consensus as they need commitment.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.

Unity increases power.

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

Reeducation comes from voices that dissent from the unexamined comfort zone, from those who abrasively shock our comfort zones with voices from outside that violate the consensus that has been silently accepted.

Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.

Today there is virtually a consensus... that Jesus came on the scene with an unheard of authority, with the claim of the authority to stand in God's place and speak to us and bring us to salvation. With regard to Jesus there are only two possible modes of behavior: either to believe that in him God encounters us or to nail him to the cross as a blasphemer. Tertium non datur. [There is no third way.]2