Jacques Attali quotes

Jacques Attali is a French economist, writer, and senior civil servant, recognized for his influential role in shaping economic and cultural policies in France and abroad. Known for his prolific writing, he has published numerous books on economics, history, and future studies. He continues to be an influential voice on issues related to globalization, innovation, and social progress. Here are 8 of his quotes:

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

Jacques Attali

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

Jacques Attali

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

Jacques Attali

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

Jacques Attali

Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.

Jacques Attali

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. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.

Jacques Attali

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

Jacques Attali