I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I’ve never thought of Playboy, quite frankly, as a sex magazine. I always thought of it as a lifestyle magazine in which… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
When 'Penthouse' and 'Hustler' came along, they confused what I was trying to do. Before they arrived, we were perceived as a… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
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… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
There's almost a Rorschach-test quality about writing about 'Playboy'. What comes out in the press is not so much about me as… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Part of the concept behind the magazine was breaking barriers. And it wasn't just a sexual thing. It was racial and doing… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I was raised in a truly typical Midwestern home with a lot of repression. My life, and the creation of Playboy, were… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Maxim and FHM and the 'laddie books' are really just a downscale version of Playboy. The men's field is really hot today,… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two… — 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
If Playboy ever loses its editorial balls, then it will deserve to be knocked over by a younger, more vigorous magazine in… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I think that from the very beginning it wasn't simply, what made Playboy so popular was not simply the naked ladies, what… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects. If women weren't sex objects, there wouldn't… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
With the end of communism and the opening of Third World markets, the potential for Playboy is huge. It has been said… — 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
'Playboy' was not a sex magazine as far as I was concerned. Sex was simply part of the total package; I was… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The women's movement kind of came out of left field in the 1960s and 1970s when they turned on 'Playboy.' — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share
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
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
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
I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share
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
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
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
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
The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share
Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share
I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share
