Quotes from Greta Thunburg

Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn't speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying 'we support you' and then walking away. We won't be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That's why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn't enough. That's why we have to keep striking.

Giving up cannot be an option.

For 25 years countless people have come to the U.N. climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

The thing that's made me open my eyes to what was happening to the environment and climate was films and documentaries.

Many people seem to have this double moral. They say one thing and then do another thing. They say that the climate crisis is very important and yet they do nothing about it.

For way too long the politicians and people in power have got away with not doing anything at all to fight the climate crisis and ecological crisis.

It's empowering to know I am doing something, I am taking a stand, I am disrupting.

I don't use any animal products, both because of ethical and environmental and climate reasons.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

I don't think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

I thought I couldn't make a difference because I was too small.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

The most common criticism I get is that I'm being manipulated and you shouldn't use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I can't think for myself and so on. And I think that is so annoying! I'm also allowed to have a say - why shouldn't I be able to form my own opinion and try to change people's minds?