Friday, October 21, 2011

Walter Bagehot: Quote for October 21, 2011

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius, but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door-neighbor...Public opinion is a permeating influence and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men’s thoughts, to speak other men’s words, to follow other men’s habits.
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