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Black and gold portrait of an older person with glasses and a turtleneck above white text on black: "Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told…

Octavia Butler on Choosing Your Leaders Wisely

An Octavia Butler quote warning that cowards, fools, thieves, liars and tyrants make bad leaders. Sci-fi wisdom for Xennials who read her in English class.

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Black and gold portrait of an older person with glasses and a turtleneck above white text on black: "Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told…

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