Hugh Hefner Quotes

Some people would like the world to go back to the 1950s.

The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.

And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe.

I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet.

In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.

Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.

The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

I am a product of the 1950s.

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.

What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.

In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.

The nineteen fifties was a time of tumultuous change.

It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love Not War - we were idealistic innocents, darling, despite the drugs and sex. We were sweet lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works. None of us were famous, we were broke. We didn't think they'd be writing books about us in 30 years. We were just kids doing the right thing.

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole system. But those days are over. This is the day of conservatism.

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

I arrived in San Francisco in January 1951. After the Second World War, the population was so uprooted. Soldiers came back home for brief periods and took off again. So the population was very fluid, and suddenly it was as if the continent tilted west. The whole population slid west. It took 10 years for America to coalesce into a new culture. And the new culture happened in San Francisco, not New York.

Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.

I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would in fact be an exact equivalent of the totalitarian societies against which we are supposed to be fighting in a cold war.

Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.