Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.
D.T. MaxMots clés community grammar consensus
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 contest which someone will be seen to lose. Voting would be the most likely means to guarantee humiliations, resentments, hatreds, in the end, the destruction of communities. What is seen as an elaborate and difficult process of finding consensus is, in fact, a long process of making sure no one walks away feeling that their views have been totally ignored.
David GraeberMots clés democracy voting consensus
A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaMots clés art understanding harmony agreement artistic consensus unanimity
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.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaMots clés freedom freedom-of-speech agreement consensus unanimity
To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaMots clés thinking reason logic rationality argument challenge ego agreement disagreement debate self-development consensus improvement unanimity social-networking twitter tweet social-networks
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 such things any better? Just because religion attempts to answer such questions does not mean its answers are correct. And such answers never seem to achieve any consensus. What is the meaning of life? Your answer is as good as mine--or just as bad.
G.M. JacksonMots clés science meaning-of-life explanations consensus science-and-religion
There are not enough purple states. No one votes in primaries, except the most ideological. And big money comes in to support or oppose the candidates in those primaries.
Evan BayhMots clés consensus bipartisanship polarization
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