Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. The doomed city (№ 151636)

- Every elite is disgusting...
- Well, I'm sorry! Now, if you said, "every elite, wielding the destinies and lives of other people - it's disgusting", - here I would agree with you. And the elite, the elite for herself - to prevent it? It is irritating, to rage, to fury! is another thing, but annoying - it's one of her functions... And full equality - it's a swamp, stagnant. You should thank mother nature that this can not be total equality...