"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X
A Man Who Stands For Nothing
A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
About this quote
This is a variant of the same proverb recorded as quote 692 and attributed to Malcolm X across various sources from 1963–1964. Quote Investigator finds no verified primary source connecting the saying to Malcolm X; the earliest known close match appears in a 1945 article in Mental Hygiene journal, and similar formulations were used by multiple speakers before and after Malcolm X's era. It remains widely associated with him, but the attribution is unverified.
Source
Attributed, various speeches, 1963-1964
