Leaders

“Choose your leader 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, Parable of the Talents, 1998.