Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more…

Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always…

— Julian Baggini

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Children's games are stronger than you remember once you've grown up and left them behind. They're always fair, and never kind.

— Anonymous

“Grown-ups are an untrustworthy, treacherous lot, they don't take their games in the serious wholehearted way children do, and yet they too have their…

— Italo Calvino

Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of…

— Jean Piaget

Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.

— Yehuda Amichai

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

— Michel de Montaigne

I still remember with gratitude a series for children on everyday life where we learned about the games children in other times had played…

— Margaret MacMillan

We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children,…

— Herb Kohl

“[There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their vulnerability to fear, anger, hate and…

— Maurice Sendak

Few adults realize what a huge force video games have become in children's lives.

— David Sheff

Some people will say Nintendo's games are for children. But our goal is to boost the population of gamers by making games for all…

— Satoru Iwata

Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into…

— Hugh Mackay

Yes, it's possible to play computer games on your own and many do. But I also see children playing them in pairs and fours…

— Michael Rosen

“From watching children play with objects designed as “amusements,” we come to a new place, a place of cold comforts. Child and adult, we…

— Sherry Turkle