Smart leaders make no promises they cannot fulfill, while wise leaders make promises when they are two steps from delivering. Foolish leaders promise the moon and then blame the peasants for failing to deliver.

It takes greater intelligence to resolve our differences and disputes without violence than with violence. I know this because scorpions have the cognitive sophistication to resolve their conflicts with violence.

Human intelligence is incredible because it has given us apples, oranges, bananas, passionfruit, jackfruit and dragon fruit, nourishment from around the globe, while nature offers feast or famine, and the gods blame us for droughts and pestilence.

The greatest love imaginable loves heterosexuals, homosexuals, bisexuals, transsexuals, asexuals, queers, 2spirits or everyone else. The worst love possible loves only heterosexual people, condemning the rest to eternal torture and trauma.

Good leaders express gratitude. Bad leaders demand gratitude. Good leaders invest in wellbeing. Bad leaders poison wellbeing. Good leaders develop people's strengths. Bad leaders exploit people's weaknesses.

It takes greater intelligence to negotiate win-win treaties than to declare war, greater intelligence to speak truth when it is uncomfortable, greater intelligence to love those who are different than to demonize them, and greater intelligence to share resources when resources are scarce.

The greatest love imaginable loves everyone: women, men, intersex, black, white, brown, albino, rich, poor, middle class - 8 billion humans and counting; The feeblest love possible loves a select few: rich white men and to hell with the rest of humankind.

Human intelligence has given us three meals a day, 365 days a years, when neither the universe, nature nor the gods have provided a steady, predictable diet day after day, year after year through famines, floods and pandemics.

Great leaders earn respect because they understand genuine respect is given, not taken. Bad leaders demand the respect while spewing contempt for the humblest people.

It takes greater intelligence to be kind than is required to be mean. If you doubt me, consider Komodo dragons have the cognitive sophistication to be nasty to others, but lack the intelligence to be nice or kind.

Human intelligence gave us the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including the liberty to believe as our conscience chooses, while the universe knows not, nature cares not, and traditional religion demands unquestioning, unthinking obedience.

The greatest love I can imagine loves humankind, 8 billion people and counting. The smallest love I can imagine loves only the 150 people in our little tribe.

Great leaders demand the highest moral standards of themselves because they appreciate they are role models for their people. Bad leaders demand the highest moral standards of everyone except themselves.

It takes far more intelligence to help people than it does to viciously assault them. If you doubt me, consider the mighty seawater crocodile has the cognitive sophistication to savagely assault another crocodile. Good heavens, they will happily cannibalize smaller crocs.

Human intelligence gave us the Magna Carta, our Miranda rights, the presumption of innocence and principles of restorative justice, while the universe knows not, nature cares not and medieval religion proclaims we are sinners.

The greatest love imaginable loves everyone whether female, male, intersex or transexual; black, white, brown or albino; gay, straight, trans, queer or otherwise. The worst love possible loves only those who look and fornicate like us.

It takes greater intelligence to judge a person by the content of their character than is required to judge them by the colour of their skin.

Smart leaders model respect. Foolish leaders demand respect. Wise leaders model gratitude. Foolish leaders demand gratitude. Moral leaders trust people. Immoral leaders suspect everyone. Good leaders have humility. Bad leaders have arrogance.

The greatest love imaginable loves every woman, man and intersex human whether young, old or middle age, black, white, brown or albino, rich, poor or middle class. The worst love loves only those who look, walk, talk and smell like us.

Human intelligence gave us public health care and education to help us grow and develop our bodies and our minds, allowing us to rise from poverty and mindless servitude to the small minded and small hearted elite.

Do we want to live in a world that cares about Africans, Asians, Europeans, Indo-Pacificers, North and South Americans equally? Or a world that primarily cares about narcissistic billionaires?

Good leaders empower people. Bad leaders punish people. Good leaders solve problems. Bad leaders blame scapegoats. Good leaders protect their people. Bad leaders protect themselves.

Empathy is perhaps the greatest cognitive challenge because it takes far more intelligence to understand what it is like to be a bat, cat, rat or a gnat than is necessary to kill them. After all, lizards have the brains to kill them.

It is said the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Therefore, the needs of students outweighs the needs of greedy CEOs, who ironically depend on competent workers to fulfill their ambitions. - 2-4 million CEOs vs 265 million colleges and university students.

The greatest love imaginable loves everyone regardless of race, religion, gender, sexuality, politics, profession, wealth or sociability. The smallest love imaginable loves only people of one race, one religion, one gender, one sexuality, one politic, one socioeconomic rank.

Wise leaders accept full responsibility because they understand casting blame does not solve the problem. Foolish leaders cast blame so they need not solve the problem and so nobody accuses them.

It takes greater emotional and social intelligence to solicit consent than is necessary to force yourself on a partner. If you doubt me, consider the males of most species (regardless of brain size or sophistication) force themselves on the females.

Human intelligence gave us the written word, enabling us to appreciate the breathe of humanity's wisdom from indigenous cultures through Islamic, Chinese, Indian and Japanese philosophies to contemporary scientific thinking.

The greatest love imaginable loves every human being that ever was, is or will be whether male or female, whatever their colour, gender, sexuality, religiousness, politics or education. The worst love loves only those who smell as we smell.

Great leader care about their people from the humblest to the haughtiest, Bad leaders care about themselves and their cronies.

It takes greater emotional intelligence and social intelligence to befriend someone than is necessary to bully them. To bully them, you need only find a weakness, real or imagined, and remind them daily. To befriend them, you need to listen to them and understand them.

Human intelligence gave us the written word, factual and fictional, allowing us to discover the universe of human thought spanning the centuries, continents and cultures from ancient Mesopotamia to the Renaissance and into the twenty-first century.

The greatest love imaginable loves the people I cherish most dearly as well as the people I absolutely despise. I know not how or why, only that it does. The worst love possible only loves the people I care about – damn the rest to eternal torture and trauma.

Good leaders inspire hope because they have a vision of a better world for all. Bad leaders instill fear because they have a vision of a world overrun by thieves, thugs and rapists.

It takes far greater intelligence to discover what lies beneath the surface than is necessary to examine superficial features. It takes one glance to judge someone by their clothes but weeks to judge them by their lives.

great leaders care about their people beginning with those at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale and great leaders dedicated themselves to help the poorest improve their lives; horrible leaders care only about their cronies, not the people at the bottom of the socioeconomic heap;

Human intelligence gave us the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper, the Scream, Guernica and thousands more masterpieces. It gave us Carmen, Figaro, Hamlet, Godot and hundreds more theatrical characters to entertain us.

The greatest love imaginable loves religious people, irreligious anti-religious people without exception or excuses. The worst love loves only a hundred thousand souls from this sect or that sect, piously condemning billions upon billions of souls to an eternity of horrendous torture.

Great leaders model honesty. Bad leaders demand honesty. Great leaders model loyalty. Bad leaders demand absolute loyalty. Great leaders model trust. Bad leaders demand unquestioning faith.

It takes greater intelligence to respect people than it is needed to be contemptuous of them. To genuinely respect them, you need to understand their value. To be contemptuous, simply accuse them of eating rats and roaches.

Human intelligence gave us pasta, pizza and pastries galore; it created work shoes, dress shoes and casual shoes to compliment winter wear, summer wear, formal attire, lounge wear and naughty attire;

The greatest love imaginable loves everyone: plumbers, proctologists, plasterers, philosophers, prison officers and politicians. The worst love conceivable loves only privileged groups: rich, white men and damn the rest.

Taxes contribute our national prosperity and wellbeing because they ensure we have excellent infrastructure that keeps society operating and taxes help pay public education and public health care both of which underpin prosperity and wellbeing. Those who oppose taxes also oppose prosperity.

Good leaders lead by example so people will do as they do. Bad leaders lead by decree for they expect people to do as commanded and not as the dear leader does.

It takes more intelligence to be kind and considerate than is necessary to be mean and nasty. To be mean, I only need a stick, or a piece of steel pipe, but to be nice, I need to consider the situation, select kind words, employ a friendly tone and posture, and respond before the moment is gone.

The greatest love imaginable loves everyone: liberals, conservatives, moderates, communists, democrats, monarchists, socialists, capitalists, - 10, 20, 30 billion people and counting. The worst love possible loves only a million like minded souls - condemning everyone else to eternal damnation.

It takes greater intelligence to love than to hate. To hate another requires virtually no knowledge of the other person, but to really love them, you need to spend time learning about them, their likes and dislikes, their virtues and vices, their inner beauty and ugliness.

While nature gave us hairless bodies and religion gave us mountains of guilt and shame over our bodies, human intelligence has given us garments galore, pants, shorts, leggings, shirts, sweaters, underwear, socks, shoes, coats and so much more

Good leaders solve problems. Bad leaders blame scapegoats. Good leaders protect their people. Bad leaders protect themselves. Good leaders empower people. Bad leaders punish people.

The greatest love imaginable loves heterosexuals, homosexuals, bisexuals, transsexuals, asexuals, queers, 2spirits or everyone else. The worst love possible loves only heterosexual people, condemning the rest to eternal torture and trauma.