“The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.” PeopleCountryHandsGamesSportsFootballImportanceIncrediblesOur Society Author:Howard Cosell
“If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must motivate any true artist, makes him aware that our nation falls short of its highest potential. I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist.” IfsLittlesHas BeensCountrySometimesArtistFallNationsJusticeCivilizationHighestConcernImportanceCriticalOur CountryRecognitionOur SocietySensitivityGreat ArtGreat ArtistTrue Artists Author:John F. Kennedy
“In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white.” WellsCountryBlackWhiteImportanceUnityImpressed Author:Malcolm X
“I think we continually need to understand how important an event the war was - how defining, how central to who we are. Everything that came before it led up to it, and everything of importance to this country - at least up to 1940 - was a consequence of it. Even now there's an echo of the war, however faint, in almost everyone's life.” ThinkingNeedsImportantWarCountryEventsConsequenceImportanceCivil WarWho We AreEchoesDefining Author:Ken Burns
“That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to make happen - your values and choices. That which happened by accident - what family you were born into, in what country, and where you went to school - is totally unimportant.” ImportantCountryHappensSchoolValuesChoicesBornHappenedImportanceImportant ThingsAccidentsThings HappenYou ChooseUnimportant Author:Ayn Rand
“At Rome there were nothing even vaguely resembling modern political parties - although given the stifling impact of these, this may well have made it more rather than less democratic than many countries today - and each candidate for office competed as an individual. Only rarely did they advocate specific policies, although commenting on issues of current importance was more common. In the main voters looked more for a capable individual who once elected could do whatever the State required.” WellsMayMadeCountryStatesTodayPoliticalIndividualGivenPartyCommonIssuesModernPolicyOfficeCapableImportanceImpactDemocraticCurrentsMade ItCandidatesVotersRomePolitical PartiesStifling Author:Adrian Goldsworthy
“In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in the degree that his nation is great; that a German as such is superior to a Belgian as such; an Englishman, to an Irishman; an American, to a Mexican: merely because the first-named countries are in each case more powerful than their comparatives. And people who have no individual stature whatever are willing to accept this poisonous nonsense because it gives them a sense of importance without the trouble of any personal effort.” PeopleMenGivingFirstsCountryProblemIndividualNationsPowerfulEffortAcceptingCasesTroubleBuildingWillingDegreesImportanceImpressionSuperiorsNonsenseEmpiresMysticalMexicanEnglishmenStaturePoisonousIrishmenBelgians Author:Felix Morley