"Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit."

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Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them.

— W. H. Auden