Quotes from Greta Thunburg

We can no longer save the world by playing by the rules.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

Even if the politics needed doesn't exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

I don't fly because of the enormous climate impact of aviation per person.

People are unaware of what is going on. When I talk to people, they know the basics, they know the planet is warming because of greenhouse gases... but they don't know the actual consequence of that.

I don't really like being in the centre of attention.

It is hard sometimes to always be at the centre of attention, but when you talk about me you also have to talk about the climate.

You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it's peaceful, of course.

I think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones and the rest of the people are pretty strange. They keep saying that climate change is an existential threat and the most important issue of all. And yet they just carry on like before.

I think that once you fully understand the climate and ecological emergencies, then you know what you can do as well. And, of course, there's a lot of things you can do in your everyday life, but we cannot be focusing on these individual things you can do. We have to see the full picture.

Many people say that this is not an easy issue, we cannot just say that this is how it is, it's not black and white. But I say that this is black and white. Either we stop the emissions or we don't. There are no gray areas when it comes to survival.

I'm very weak in a sense. I'm very tiny and I am very emotional, and that is not something people usually associate with strength.

Many people, especially in the U.S., see countries like Sweden or Norway or Finland as role models - we have such a clean energy sector, and so on. That may be true, but we are not role models.

The symbolism of the climate strike is that if you adults don't give a damn about my future, I won't either.

Of course, individual change doesn't make much difference in a holistic picture... but we need both systemic change and individual change.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

When I was maybe eight or nine years old, I first learned about the climate crisis in school. My teachers taught me about it and we saw films and pictures of plastic in the ocean and extreme weather events. Those pictures were just stuck in my head; I thought, there is no point in anything.

Nothing is being done to stop the climate and ecological emergency from happening and to secure the future wellbeing for future generations.

I'm telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

I have promised myself that I'm going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

The best thing about my protest has been to see how more and more people have been coming and getting involved.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don't have time to be depressed anymore.

I personally have stopped flying. I have stopped eating meat and dairy.