Johan Huizinga

The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.

— Johan Huizinga

Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

— Johan Huizinga

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

— Johan Huizinga

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

— Johan Huizinga

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

— Johan Huizinga

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

— Johan Huizinga