Blueprint for Revolution: how to use rice pudding, Lego men, and other non-violent techniques to galvanise communities, overthrow dictators, or simply change the world

by Srdja Popovic

Violence scares people, and when people are scared, they look for a strong leader to protect them. And this relates, as does everything else in this book, to the pillars of power. As my friend Slobo says, people in violent struggles are always trying to knock down pillars by pushing them, but in nonviolent campaigns people are working to pull the pillars to their side.