“LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with autodestructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it’ll be someone else’s bones which go crack and not their own.”

— John Brunner , book Stand on Zanzibar

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Stand on Zanzibar (1968)

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British author 1934–1995

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