Nothing is easier than to divide men into rightists and leftists, hunchbacks and straightbacks, fascists and democrats—and these distinctions will be perfectly just. But truth, we know, is that which clarifies, not that which confuses. Truth is the language which expresses universality.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, Ch. Barcelona and Madrid, 1939, Harcourt Brace (1992 edition)