Octavia Butler on How (Not) to Choose Our Leaders

"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 lies.To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery."

Octavia Butler (June 22, 1947–February 24, 2006)

Octavia Butler on How (Not) to Choose Our Leaders – Brain Pickings