As Alain observed in 1931: "When people ask me if the division between parties of the Right and parties of the Left, men of the Right and men of the Left, still makes sense, the first thing that comes to mind is that the person asking the question is certainly not a man of the Left".
1931年にAlainは、「もし人が私に、左翼や右翼の政党や人の相違が今でも意味を持つかと聞いたとすれば、私の最初に思う事は、質問したのは確実に左翼ではないということだ」と述べている 。