“Kill man’s sense of values. Kill his capacity to recognise greatness or to achieve it. Great men can’t be ruled. We don’t want any great men. Don’t deny conception of greatness. Destroy it from within. The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional. Set up standards of achievement open to all, to the least, to the most inept– and you stop the impetus to effort in men, great or small. You stop all incentive to improvement, to excellence, to perfection.”

– Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead