I think that sexual oppression and dictatorship go hand in hand. Hugh Hefner More Quotes by Hugh Hefner More Quotes From Hugh Hefner 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. Hugh Hefner impact growing-up idols 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. Hugh Hefner typical creation home The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure. Hugh Hefner single-life men ideas 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 dream home kids After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois the skirt lengths dropped instead of going up as they had during the roaring twenties and I knew that was a very bad sign, and it is symbolic and reflective of a very repressive time, and some of that was laid the feet of the cold war. Hugh Hefner illinois college war I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated. Hugh Hefner sophisticated childhood connected Everybody marches to a different drummer. Hugh Hefner march drummer different There are many roads to Mecca. Hugh Hefner mecca 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. Hugh Hefner supportive life thinking America is just as much to blame as a lot of our enemies. Hugh Hefner blame america enemy 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. Hugh Hefner party twenties missing You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people. Hugh Hefner personal-choice choices people 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 suspicious hands people My life has been devoted to trying to bring a little more understanding to human sexuality - not just in society, but also inside myself. The struggle has been internal as well as external. One of the reasons that I have such tremendous satisfaction at this point in my life is because I know I've made a difference. I've made a difference in a way that really matters to me. I see a lot of terrible things going on in the world, but there are some good things going on too, and I feel I've been a part of that. I really do feel I have been on the side of the angels. Hugh Hefner angel understanding struggle The business end of business has never interested me. Hugh Hefner ends We're separated by our myths. Hugh Hefner mythology myth I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart. Hugh Hefner typical heart kids I think our society is fragmented. Messages regarding human sexuality have always been mixed in America. We are a schizophrenic nation. We were founded initially by Puritans, who escaped repression only to establish their own. Then the founding fathers gave us the Constitution to separate church and state. But the one thing that got left out of all those laws was human sexuality. Hugh Hefner church father thinking 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. Hugh Hefner peers creating acceptance 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. Hugh Hefner significant social fun
