If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

Quillen’s line treats disorder not as an obstacle but as the raw material of creation. By invoking the cosmogonic idea that the world itself was formed “out of chaos,” he reframes social or personal upheaval as a generative starting point: if the present looks like a mess, that very mess may be what makes renewal possible. The quote also carries a democratic implication—no special substance is required to build a “new world”; the needed materials already exist in the conditions at hand. Its wit lies in turning a complaint about chaos into an argument for constructive imagination and resilience.