11 Quotes by Ryszard Legutko

The illusion they cherish of being a brave minority heroically facing the whole world, false as it is, gives them nevertheless a strange sense of comfort: they feel absolutely safe, being equipped with the most powerful political tools in today’s world but at the same time priding themselves on their courage and decency, which are more formidable the more awesome the image of the enemy becomes.

Captured by the ideological animus, both socialist and liberal-democratic art abandoned the criterion of beauty – considered anachronistic and of dubious political value – and replaced it with the criterion of correctness.