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. I…

- Jacques Attali

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

- Jacques Attali

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

- Jacques Attali

In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by man with specific tool…

- Jacques Attali

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.

- Jacques Attali

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

- Jacques Attali

Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.

- Jacques Attali

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

- Jacques Attali

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

- Jacques Attali