affirmation quotes

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.

- Ivan Illich
  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.

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