Ahimsa is not mere pacifism. It is dynamic positive force. It is active condemnation of untruth, without violence, anger or malice – an attitude both towards the human and the sub-human creation. Ahimsa is the principle of the sacredness of life and not merely a negative virtue; it involves the positive doing of good quite as much as the negative refusal to do harm. The idea of ahimsa is purity and truth rather than mere compassion or pity. It does not mean helping the evil-doer to continue their wrong or tolerating it by passive acquiescence. On the contrary, love requires resisting the wrong-doer by dissociating oneself from him even though it may offend him or injure him physically. Truth and Love is central to the whole concept of ahimsa. Gandhi often stressed that a seeker after truth must imbibe the faith of ahimsa. Gandhi stressed that the kingdom of God could he achieved by resorting to the twin principles of ahimsa and truth. In the ordinary sense, love means loving an object which is