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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