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Be the change you wish to see in the world.
We need to be the change we wish to see in the world, said the philosopher Pekka Himanen, quoting Mahatma Gandhi.
Gandhi’s words have been tweaked a little too in recent years. Perhaps you’ve noticed a bumper sticker that purports to quote him: `Be the change you wish to see in the world´.
When you first come across it, this does sound like something Gandhi would have said.
And now is selling us by part of Himanen's own wisdom.
Sure, Mahatma Gandhi is telling us that personal and social transformation go hand in hand, but there is no suggestion in his words that personal transformation is enough.
In fact, for Gandhi, the struggle to bring about a better world involved not only stringent self-denial and rigorous adherence to the philosophy of nonviolence; it also involved a steady awareness that one person, alone, can’t change anything, an awareness that unjust authority can be overturned only by great numbers of people working together with discipline and persistence.

One of Himanen poor man's Gadhì-sitat,  which he has collected, will be accordance with proceedings of the Third Biennial Convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America:
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Describing the stages of a winning strategy of nonviolent activism. However there is no record of Gandhi saying this. A close variant of the quotation first appears in a 1918 US trade union address by Nicholas Klein:

And, my friends, in this story you have a history of this entire movement. First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you.  And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.

According to NYT Thoreau, Gandhi, Mandela — it’s easy to see why their words and ideas have been massaged into gauzy slogans.
They were inspirational figures, dreamers of beautiful dreams. But what goes missing in the slogans is that they were also sober, steely men. Each of them knew that thoroughgoing change, whether personal or social, involves humility and sacrifice, and that the effort to change oneself or the world always exacts a price.