community consensus Quotes

The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word.

Any law that takes hold of a man’s daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it.

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.

It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.

Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.

As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this issue of paradigm choice can never be unequivocally settled by logic and experiment alone.

If we have a bitcoin universe, you don't get to print money for war. You don't get to have money for a prison/industrial complex. You don't get money for a war on drugs. You have to ask the people.