Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
As long as it is supported by Democratic politicians and by liberal Hollywood players, censorship is a useful tool to stifle dissent.
You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.
If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval.
You have to have more people who don't look like you in the writers room. I try to have some people who don't look like me in my writers room. I think it's important to have a group of voices, of people who can dissent.
I understand the principles of dissent in parliament.
So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.
A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.
The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.