Question 1

What is the best book to start with?

Accepted Answer

Hind Swaraj, especially the pages on means and ends. It is short, it is his English, and it is the argument the posters replaced.

Question 2

What is the most famous quote?

Accepted Answer

This library does not measure fame, and it does not rank lines by how often they are shared. The first line it files for Mohandas K. Gandhi that is not marked Questionable or Misattributed is “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him.” (Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, volume 13; a 1913 formulation widely identified by quotation researchers, Paraphrase or translation).

Question 3

What is the most misquoted line?

Accepted Answer

The library marks this as Misattributed: “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” The seven-word line does not appear in the Collected Works. A longer 1913 passage about changing yourself, and the world changing its attitude, is the text people compress. That passage is included separately and is not this slogan.

Question 4

What is one key idea, in a sentence?

Accepted Answer

Ahimsa: Nonviolence as a disciplined political ethic, with arguments and limits, not a proverb about blindness.