Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

We have to take the world as we find it and do what we can to improve upon it.

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

You have a mind. And you have other people. Start with those, and change the world.

There are reformers in every country.

In the institution of societies, mankind in all probability thought father of redressing the evils, which they had experienced, than of procuring the several advantages resulting from laws, from commerce, from the arts and sciences, and from all those other improvements so frequently mentioned in history.

if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Change America—Change the World

My entire goal in life is to try and change the world.

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is the seat of sympathy,-he forthwith sets about reforming the world.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

It's a big question. Where do you begin to change the world?

Society flourishes when and only when its molecular unit, the family, flourishes. We know that lasting improvement comes only in the small increments produced by individuals adhering to the simple rules of life.

Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.

Student: Sir, you said you must change the world. How can you change it, sir? Krishnamurti: What is the world? The world is where you live - your family, your friends, your neighbours. And your family, your friends, your neighbours can be extended and that is the world. Now, you are the centre of that world. That is the world you live in. Now how will you change the world? By changing yourself?

But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.

Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

When Obama ran, he said, We can change the world! The world: can you change it back?!

The world is changing and so is fashion.

Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical senses, bumptiously declares there is nothing more to know!

Government doesn't work. That's the first lesson we must learn if we want to improve society.