Robert A. Heinlein Quotes on Intelligence
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You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
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Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.
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Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.
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Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules on sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.