Hugh Hefner Quotes

I think that sexual oppression and dictatorship go hand in hand.

Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection between male and female.

I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize.

I think being connected to younger people helps to keep you young and gives you a young attitude.

You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.

What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.

Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.''

Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality.

Because of the nature of my life, it's difficult for people to recognize that a person can live a full life, and maybe an unorthodox life, and still be on the side of the angels.

People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

Everybody marches to a different drummer.

The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols.

I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married.

I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.

I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.

Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.

There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in.

People project their own dreams, fantasies, and prejudices onto my life. So people are either fans, or jealous, or disagree. Everybody marches to a different drummer.

We're separated by our myths.

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

I remain good friends with most of the major relationships in my life.

I was fortunate enough to be raised in a, in a very romantic time in terms of music, and the music itself simple reflected the much more romantic time.

I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.

They must be doing something right up there in Canada.

I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on another quarter century.

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

My folks were farm people from Nebraska, so I like home cooking.

If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society, then the reverse was wrong, too.

It's hard to really compare new love and old love.

Retirement is unthinkable to me. The future is bright and very exciting and I'm looking forward to playing a part in it.

My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

I feel saddened when people who have major friendships or marriages wind up on the outs. Because I think you lose a little piece of yourself.

Life and values do run in cycles.

Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down.

The phenomena there is something in us that on the one hand bonds us with like people but somehow makes us suspicious of other people.

America is just as much to blame as a lot of our enemies.

The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre.

I've never gotten enough credit!

I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.

I do think the reality is, there is a general recognition of what I've accomplished.

At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes.

The business end of business has never interested me.

I am in very good health. I've never felt better.

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.

In the '80s and '90s we started to have economic problems because society became more conservative. So we didn't have the wherewithal for expanding to other areas.

It's very difficult to censor anything anymore.

For some people, there is no succession plan. They just leave, and there's no getting over it.

I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.

What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.