“You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.” PeopleChoicesIncludingPersonal Choice Author:Hugh Hefner
“I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.” WorldPoliticalParticularDuty Author:Jeanette Winterson
“When we say we can pull resources away from libraries, from culture, from those parts of the education system that are not about utility, what we are really saying is that the life of the mind is unnecessary.” MindCultureResourcesLibraryUnnecessaryUtilityEducation System Author:Jeanette Winterson
“I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.” ThinkingPhilosophyDreamConnectedAmerican DreamPlayboy Author:Hugh Hefner
“One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite a small vocabulary and really no conceptual or abstract thinking. That's an issue. If you've got a wide vocabulary, you can learn. The complexities of grammar, in themselves, force you to think about time in a particular way. Force you to widen your outlook on the world.” IfsThinkingWorldWayProblemLanguageForceLevelsIssuesParticularTvsLowsWideAbstractComplexityVocabularyOutlookGrammarWatching TvLow LevelAbstract Thinking Author:Jeanette Winterson
“The best language is always found in books because it's considered. It's a high language. Sometimes, it is complex and difficult. It's empowering and offers a way to speak about yourself that you don't have if all you are doing is reading the newspaper and watching TV.” IfsWayBookSometimesReadingFoundSpeakLanguageDifficultTvsOffersComplexesNewspapersEmpoweringAbout YourselfWatching Tv Author:Jeanette Winterson
“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.” MindStatesBodyAmericaChurchLimitsSupposed To BeMind And BodyInappropriateInconsistent Author: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.” ThinkingKindArtMadeRunningViewsPoint Of ViewNakedRationalMagazinesPlayboy Author:Hugh Hefner
“I suggested that sex was not the enemy, that violence was the enemy, that nice girls like sex.” GirlSexEnemyNiceViolenceNice Girl Author:Hugh Hefner
