Current nationalism is merely the affirmation of the right of colonial elites to repeat historyand follow the road travelled by the rich toward the universal consumption of internationally marketed packages, a road which can ultimately lead only to universal pollution and universal frustration.

-Illich, Ivan
  Celebration of  Awareness, ch.12.

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from another.

-Thurber,James Grover
  Of English. Lanterns and Lances,'Such a Phrase as Drifts Through Dreams'.