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About this quote

What does it mean?
Truth stops lies, love stops anger, and suffering stops violence for everyone.
In plain terms
Truth, love, and suffering can stop negative forces.
What can you take from it?
Use truth and love to stop negativity.

Where it applies

  • conflict resolution
  • activism
  • personal growth

Putting it to work

  • practicing nonviolence
  • responding with love

Questions to consider

  • How can love stop anger?
  • What stops violence in your view?

Another view

This approach may not work in all urgent situations.

More from Mahatma Gandhi

  1. Truth never damages a cause that is just.

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  2. Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to ac…

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  3. Truth alone will endure; all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

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