Jacques Attali Quotes

What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.

Now we must learn to judge a society by its sounds.

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it

Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.

The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is that of a woman.