"First, lower the level of culture, science and talents. A high scientific level is only accessible to superior intelligences. However, superior intelligence is not needed! Men gifted with high faculties have always seized power and have always ended up despots. They cannot help but be despots and they have always done more harm than good; that they be expelled or delivered to torture. Cut out Cicero's tongue, put out Copernicus' eyes, stone Shakespeare". ~Pyotr Verkhovensky in The possessed.