You get paid for being right first, and to be first, you can’t wait for consensus.

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

Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear.

So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become worried by the frenzy and paranoia of the Nixonian Vietnam policy that consensus...

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

To leave a man’s ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

But we don’t think this language quarrels with the consensus view of financial markets – and our view – that an easing cycle will most likely begin in September.

I really can’t say for sure what the consensus might be at this time. Obviously, the (landlord ordinance) is not a good one because it violates state law. I think we need to start off...

Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and could not comprehend that such an assessment—which would yield a monstrous toll if...

The scientific consensus is that the end of continuous ice in the summer months is within the human horizon 50 years, 70 years, 30 years. In recorded history, we’ve never had that, so this is...

Toward the end of his book, Miller explains his need to unite science and religion: science does not explain the meaning and purpose of life. That may be, but why should we assume religion explains...

Hamas is regularly described as ‘Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.’ One will be hard put to find something like ‘democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state...

In ambiguous situations, it’s a good bet that the crowd will generally stick together – and be wrong.

The questions reveal widespread doubts about the country’s current course. But there is no consensus on which direction to take.

The consensus is for no rate hike, but we still want to see whether (U.S. policymakers) say inflationary risks have receded or hint that rate hikes aren’t over for this year.

The situation is grave from an Israeli point of view, probably on the verge of an explosion. There’s a consensus both in the security establishment and in public opinion, and among most ministers in the...

After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it’s good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.

I think (Wynne as first pick) is the general consensus — most people would say he’s the likely No. 1, and he’s earned that. He’s obviously a special kind of athlete. And when you talk...

Life in society requires consensus as an indispensable condition. But consensus, to be productive, requires that each individual contribute independently out of of his experience and insight.

do more in less time” is not a neutral force in our culture; it is the handmaiden of miserable experts, specialists, and leaders. Not everyone has rushed to become efficient. Something else exists on the...

My Subaru friends are upstanding members of the Creative Class. They also for burnt Democrats. As it turns out, Republicans in their neighborhood are about as rare as Cadillacs.

There will be no increase in production, definitely not. There is a consensus on that.

This was my first real lesson in politics… If you are cast on a desert island with only a screwdriver, hatchet, and the chisel to make a boat with, why, go and make the best...

We should have a consensus between the three groups — Shiites, Kurds and the Sunnis,

I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be...

There is a consensus with the member countries to maintain the current quota as there is enough oil in the market. I expect a barrel at US$50 at least for the second quarter of the...

This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit of Geoffrey’s ideas about anatomical unity.

If there is no way to compel those who find a majority decision distasteful to go along with it, then the last thing one would want to do is to hold a vote: a public...

I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2....

There’s no consensus. There are so many strains and cross-currents.

We need an assembly, not for cleverness, but for setting things straight.

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

The theory of phlogiston was an inversion of the true nature of combustion. Removing phlogiston was in reality adding oxygen, while adding phlogiston was actually removing oxygen. The theory was a total misrepresentation of reality....

What are we going to do about winning the election? Where are we going to turn to have a viable chance to win this election? And a viable chance to win this election is coming...

It was a very quick and strong consensus for Matt Doherty.

This isn’t to deny that there were fierce arguments, at the time and ever since, about the causes and goals of both the Civil War and the Second World War. But 1861 and 1941 each...

A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.

Mais si le leader a la conscience claire de sa vision et de ses ambitions stratégiques, il n’a pas encore résolu les enjeux liés au consensus, à la mobilisation, aux stratégies individuelles et individualistes. Son...

If the headline [CPI] number fails to meet the consensus view, players are likely to rush to unwind huge long positions on the yen which they had built recently on expectations of an early end...