Reading Theodore Dalrymple: But there is a much more insidious threat to our freedom even than that posed by a self-replicating and self-satisfied political class that lives in a kind of mentally-gated (and often physically separate) community. It is that posed by an important section of the political class that values power much more highly than it values liberty: the liberty of others, I mean, for even Genghis Khan valued his own liberty.
Would have been more fascinating if you had gotten the quotation right - should have been ...that posed by an important section of the intellectual class .....