#consensus

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

#agree #birds #consensus #difficult #easier

Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works. ↗

— Larisa Oleynik

#being #business #college #consensus #everyone

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

#compromise #compromises #consensus #constitution #country

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history. ↗

— David Douglass

#consensus #had #history #indeed #scientific

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

#communicate #consensus #development #doubts #explain

I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis. ↗

— John W. Snow

#basis #build #consensus #i #i think

It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#broad #congress #consensus #could #count

The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people. ↗

— Eisaku Sato

#broad #consensus #desire #developed #into

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#consensus #genuine #leader #searcher

More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation. ↗

— David Korten

#cooperation #countries #easier #holland #humane