Harvey Cox Quotes

The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.

I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Even in my stand-up, there's a lot more positivity and enthusiasm rather than negative, I-hate-everything vibes.

Listen, if there's anything we need more of in this world, it's something that has a better ending or is more positive.

I'm just trying to be funny, trying to make people laugh, and trying to make the world a better place through some jokes. I don't have words for it. It's so overwhelming.

The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.

Comedy is lively, comedy is joy, and that's what keeps us [people] going, we've got to look forward to little, little happiness's. Little, little joys, and comedy is very, very important, it's a vital. We underestimate its value, but we should see more comedies. Comedy is life giving, it's invigorating. I really believe it.

Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice.

Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.”

We can change the world one laugh at a time.

Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it's all said and done, it's all something worthwhile, and I want my movies to reflect that. There are enough things to be sad about. When you pop in a movie, let the message be one that's one of hope.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

I propose changing fear for hope. I propose changing Mexico.