Intellectuals and bureaucrats might pose as champions of the people against the powerful. But in reality they were empire builders who were motivated by a noxious mixture of envy and greed.

知识分子和官僚也许能在不畏强权的人民面前耀武扬威，但事实上他们只是一群利欲熏心的小人，一心为了构建其利益帝国。