Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Walter Bagehot, (Feb 3 1826-1877), English economist, editor, critic, analyst; He founded and edited The Economist 1860-77; wrote English Constitution, 1867.