I came across this while looking for quotes about fools. When I looked up the book, one sentence hit me right between the eyes, and I knew I had to share this with you, along with links to the author and her work. (Look up the book and see if you see what I see.)
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“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 E. Butler, from Parable of the Talents
I know, right? This book published in 1998, sounds like it was written today. Who’d have thought?