"Today, a work of art has the right to exist only if it is created by artists with a morally impeccable past. This exorbitant requirement of absolute virtue makes any cause (feminism, homosexuality, anti-racism) a kind of religion whose inquisitors spend their time hunting down blasphemers, any sin committed damning the sinner for eternity, because the concept of forgiveness of sins is absent in this new religion . We are dealing here with a thinking of a totalitarian nature."
(From the book "La tyrannie vertueuse" by Pierre Jourde ; my translation)