"Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts." ― Mick Jagger Topic(s): Patriotism More From Mick Jagger "Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope." "The elusive nature of love… it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it’s just fluttering and it’s gone." "The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either." More In Patriotism "Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."― George Jean Nathan "Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam."― Lyndon B. Johnson "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."― Howard Zinn