The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Nothing goes on forever. I think that's one of the illusions of life. When I talk about my life being an extension… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I feel saddened when people who have major friendships or marriages wind up on the outs. Because I think you lose a… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I was raised in a typical Puritan Midwestern Methodist home and there was a lot of hurt and hypocrisy in those times.… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I have about 100 pairs of pajamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I think being connected to younger people helps to keep you young and gives you a young attitude. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
For some people, there is no succession plan. They just leave, and there's no getting over it. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
As Ray Bradbury - a longtime contributor to Playboy - said a long time ago, a lot of people, when they're talking… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Because of the nature of my life, it's difficult for people to recognize that a person can live a full life, and… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The phenomena there is something in us that on the one hand bonds us with like people but somehow makes us suspicious… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
After all the Puritans came to America to escape from persecution and then turned around and started persecuting other people. So I… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
People project their own dreams, fantasies, and prejudices onto my life. So people are either fans, or jealous, or disagree. Everybody marches… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality - because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
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… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I'm bored of the hanky-panky. I'm still active, but it's different, I like to play dominoes with my girlfriends. Having three beautiful women keeps… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
