Hugh Hefner Quotes

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

When I was young I had a security blanket and a pet dog. The dog got sick and died and the blanket had to be burned, so I guess I was trying to recreate the image of security in the bunny. It was a Citizen Kane/Rosebud thing.

After my stroke I put down much of the luggage of my life. I didn't have to prove anything anymore - in business, in my personal life or whatever. And now, as I work on my autobiography, I enjoy looking back, seeing the connections, the causes and effects of my life.

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

I've always had a tremendously optimistic attitude about life, and the setbacks are never really setbacks for me, because I see it as a part of the adventure. And if you don't hold onto your dreams, you're a very foolish fellow, because dreams are what life is about.

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

I think that I am the luckiest cat on the planet and I'm living out my own dreams and fantasies and have been for a number of years and to remain at this stage of my life, you know, so alive and things have never been better.

The business end of business has never interested me.

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

One of the things I've tried to do with my life is redefine the boundaries that I think are very limiting. I'm not suggesting that everybody should have three girlfriends, or necessarily have girlfriends living with them. I think there are many, many options to living your life.

One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.

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

I'm actually a very moral guy.

You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.

I've never gotten enough credit!

It is the beauty of women, and the fact that they are the focus, that they are sex objects in a positive sense, is the reason we have civilization.

Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.

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.

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

Publishing a sophisticated men's magazine seemed to me the best possible way of fulfilling a dream I'd been nurturing ever since I was a teenager: to get laid a lot.

It's women who have embraced their own sexuality, it's why women wear makeup, it's why they wear high heels. It's what civilization is all about.

Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

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.

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.

I can remember in my adolescence feeling that many of the things that were hurtful and hypocritical in society were things related to sex. They included the kind of censorship laws that existed in the movies and books when I was young.

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

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

I tried to make some difference, and I think I managed to do that.

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

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.

I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

I suggested that sex was not the enemy, that violence was the enemy, that nice girls like sex.

I was raised in a truly typical Midwestern home with a lot of repression. My life, and the creation of Playboy, were a response to that repression.

Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are.

Without question, love in its various permutations is what we need more of in this world. The idea that the concept of marriage will be sullied by same-sex marriage is ridiculous. Heterosexuals haven't been doing that well at it on their own.

What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

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.

With the end of communism and the opening of Third World markets, the potential for Playboy is huge. It has been said that the two most famous trademarks in the world are Coca-Cola and the Playboy bunny rabbit. There is certainly no one else in our area that represents the American dream in this particular kind of way. That rabbit means economic freedom, personal freedom and political freedom. That potential is unlimited.

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.

Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.

Several girlfriends are easier to handle than one wife.

I'm not putting myself up as the epitome of virtue. I certainly am living a non-traditional life. But it is also a loving life and a very supportive one. I think that both in this, and the previous relationship, I think that I've been doing the best I can.

We indeed did and do own our own minds and bodies, and anything from church or state that limits that is inappropriate and inconsistent with the ... society that America is supposed to be.

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

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.