The Puritans thought they could simply repress man’s sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual morality – which became America’s – was nothing more than a set of rules laid down by people who believed that all pleasure was suspect.

— Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner Quotes

Since time immemorial, youth has set the universal standard of physical beauty, and the reason is simply that a shapely firm young face and body are more attractive sexually and aesthetically than bulges, sags and wrinkles.

— Hugh Hefner

One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don’t know who you were, you don’t really know who you are.

— Hugh Hefner

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

— Hugh Hefner

The Puritans thought they could simply repress man’s sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual morality – which became America’s – was nothing more than a set of rules laid down by people who believed that all pleasure was suspect.

— Hugh Hefner

They must be doing something right up there in Canada.

— Hugh Hefner

I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection of any kind, and I escaped to dreams and fantasies produced, by and large, by the music and the movies of the ’30s.

— Hugh Hefner

We have a tremendous opportunity to try to start solving some of our overwhelming problems with population related environment, related to the hatred that exists between countries and religions, so we have a tremendous opportunity, but the dangers are very clearly there.

— Hugh Hefner

There’s always been a little bit of the crusader in me, and you need dragons to slay, without the conflict and the controversy I think that what I managed to do less, and I take a great deal of pride in the accomplishment.

— Hugh Hefner

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.

— Hugh Hefner

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.

— Hugh Hefner

I would like to think that I will be remembered as someone who had some positive impact on the sociosexual values of his time. And I think I’m secure and happy in that.

— Hugh Hefner

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

— Hugh Hefner

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

— Hugh Hefner

I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.

— Hugh Hefner

I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed.

— Hugh Hefner

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.

— Hugh Hefner

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.

— Hugh Hefner

I think that from the very beginning it wasn’t simply, what made Playboy so popular was not simply the naked ladies, what made the magazine so popular was, there was a point of view in the magazine, that you couldn’t run nude pictures without some kind of rational that they were art.

— Hugh Hefner

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

— Hugh Hefner

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.

— Hugh Hefner
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