In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.
A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
The economy itself is of such social importance that its major resources and means of production should be open to democratic participation and subject to democratic social regulation.
The press tends to reflect what's important to the country.
I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.
At some major events - your birth and death, for example - while you may be the center of attention, the events are managed by others and are more important to the people around you.
There is nothing of greater importance to the well-being of society at large - of man as well as woman - than the true proper position of woman.
Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature. It is because science gives us the power of manipulating nature that it has more social importance than art. Science as the pursuit of truth is the equal, but not the superior, of art. Science as a technique, though it may have little intrinsic value, has a practical importance to which art cannot aspire.
I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is inconclusive. This virtue, though it is underestimated by almost all adherents of any system of dogma, is to my mind of the very greatest social importance and far more likely to benefit the world than Christianity or any other system of organized beliefs.
A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.
We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?
old folks is the nation.
The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.
Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.
People want to create something bigger for themselves, and making up drama that isn't there gives people the impression that they have haters. It's all for attention so it looks like they are important.
Everyone should know a sport.
People are most important.
Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us.
Having lots of human interaction online and during shows is very important to me.
Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'
Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.
Relationships are so important to all of us.
Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
Implicit in the history of the 1st Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance.
Often misquoted as ‘utterly without redeeming social value.’