Consultation is no easy skill to learn, requiring as it does the subjugation of all egotism and unruly passions, the cultivation of frankness and freedom of thought as well as courtesy, openness of mind, and wholehearted acquiescence in a majority decision.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a message dated 10 June 1966 to the ‘Bahá'í youth in every land’; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963 to 1986’)