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Patriotism and Dissent


Dissent is unpatriotic. 

Discuss.

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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
--Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
--Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
--Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
--George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
-James Bryce

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
--Edward R. Murrow

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
--J. William Fulbright

Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed -- and no republic can survive.
--John F. Kennedy


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