Skip to content

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible—as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

— Bernard Baruch Misattributed

Another quote →

Source and credibility

Bernard Baruch very probably did not say this. Wikiquote lists it as misattributed.

Source: Friedrich Schiller. As quoted by Baruch in his Foreword to the 1932 edition of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841), by Charles Mackay.
Source quality: Secondhand citation Quoted from another book or article rather than from the original.

More by Bernard Baruch

Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

All Bernard Baruch quotes →

More quotes by Bernard Baruch

A Political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.

Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international cooperation or international disintegration.

Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation … Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

All Bernard Baruch quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Bernard Baruch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.