False Consensus

Famous quotes containing the words false and/or consensus:

    Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn’t believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
    John Major (b. 1943)