# Quote — Václav Havel, Disturbing the Peace

> It's not true that you should first think up an idea for a better world and only then "put it into practice," but, rather, through the fact of your existence in the world, you create the idea or manifest it — create it, as it were, from the "material of the world," articulate it in the "language of the world."

- Author: [Václav Havel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/vaclav-havel.md)
- Book: [Disturbing the Peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/vaclav-havel/disturbing-the-peace.md)
- Page: 12
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel#Disturbing_the_Peace_(1986)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/vaclav-havel/disturbing-the-peace/its-not-true

## More from this book

> The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning — in other words, of absurdity — the more energetically meaning is sought.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/vaclav-havel/disturbing-the-peace/the-deeper-the.md)

> We introduced a new model of behavior: don't get involved in diffuse general ideological polemics with the center, to whom numerous concrete causes are always being sacrificed; fight "only" for those concrete causes, and be prepared to fight for them unswervingly, to the end. In other words, don't get mixed up in backroom wheeling and dealing, but play an open game.

p. 83 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/vaclav-havel/disturbing-the-peace/we-introduced-a-new.md)

> Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have — by disrupting that order — a way of surprising.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/vaclav-havel/disturbing-the-peace/drama-assumes-an-order.md)