Greta Thunberg > Quotes

“We must change almost everything in our current societies.
The bigger your carbon footprint - the bigger your moral duty.
The bigger your platform - the bigger your responsibility.
Adults keep saying: 'We owe it to the young people to given them hope.'
But I don't want your hope.
I don't want you to be hopeful.
I want you to panic.
I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.
And then I want you to act.
I want you to act as you would in a crisis.
I want you to act as if our house is on fire.
Because it is.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“Homo Sapiens have not yet failed. Yes, we are failing, but there is still time to turn everything around. We can still fix this. We still have everything in our own hands.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“I don't want you to be hopeful, I want you to panic”
― Greta Thunberg

“Some people say that the climate crisis is something we have all created. But that is just another convenient lie. Because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“But I’ve learnt that no one is too small to make a difference.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“Your silence is almost worst of all.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can ‘solve the climate crisis’. But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“Some say we should not engage in activism.

Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“And I am sorry, but saying everything will be all right while continuing doing nothing at all is just not hopeful to us. In fact, it's the opposite of hope. And yet this is exactly what you keep doing. You can't just sit around waiting for hope to come - you're acting like spoiled, irresponsible children. You don't seem to understand that hope is something you have to earn. And if you still say that we are wasting valuable lesson time, then let me remind you that our political leaders have wasted decades through denial and inaction. And since our time is running out we have decided to take action. We have started to clean up your mess and we will not stop until we are done.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“Adults keep saying: "We owe it to the young people to give them hope."
But I don't want your hope.
I don't want you to be hopeful.
I want you to panic.
I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.
And then I want you to act.
I want you to act as you would in a crisis.
I want you to act as if our house is on fire.
Because it is.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“We are about to sacrifice our civilization for the opportunity of a very small number of people to continue to make enormous amounts of money. We are about to sacrifice the biosphere so that rich people in countries like mine can live in luxury. But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“And what is the point of learning facts within the school system when the most important facts given by the finest science of that same school system clearly mean nothing to our politicians and our society?”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“You lied to us. You gave us false hope. You told us that the future was something to look forward to. And the saddest thing is that most children are not even aware of the fate that awaits us. We will not understand it until it’s too late. And yet we are the lucky ones. Those who will be affected the hardest are already suffering the consequences. But their voices are not heard.
Is my microphone on? Can you hear me?”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“...the climate and the biosphere don’t care about our politics and our empty words for a single second.”
― Greta Thunberg

“Nor does hardly anyone ever mention that we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction, with about 200 species going extinct every single day.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“sometimes NOT doing things – like just sitting down outside the parliament – speaks much louder than doing things. Just like a whisper sometimes is louder than shouting”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“To all of you who choose to look the other way every day because you seem more frightened of the changes that can prevent catastrophic climate change than the catastrophic climate change itself. Your silence is almost worst of all.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“We live in a strange world, where we think we can buy or build our way out of a crisis that has been created by buying and building things.
Where a football game or a film gala gets more media attention than the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced.
Where celebrities, film and pop stars who have stood up against all injustices will not stand up for our environment and for climate justice because that would inflict on their right to fly around the world visiting their favourite restaurants, beaches and yoga retreats.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“The real power belongs to the people.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“...But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of a few.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“All we have to do is to wake up and change.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“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. If the emissions have to stop, then we must stop the emissions. To me that is black or white. There are no grey areas when it comes to survival. Either we go on as a civilization or we don’t.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“Hope doesn't come from words. Hope only comes from actions.”
― Greta Thunberg

“Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“So we can’t save the world by playing by the rules. Because the rules have to be changed. Everything needs to change. And it has to start today. So everyone out there: it is now time for civil disobedience. It is time to rebel.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“If the walls of our house truly came tumbling town, surely you would set your differences aside and start cooperating.
Well, our house is falling apart. And we are rapidly running out of time. And yet basically nothing is happening.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“We live in a strange world, where we think we can buy or build our way out of a crisis that has been created by buying and building things.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“We have not taken to the streets for you to take selfies with us, and tell us that you really admire what we do.
We children are doing this to wake the adults up. We children are doing this for you to put your differences aside and start acting as you would in a crisis. We children are doing this because we want our hopes and dreams back.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“To all the politicians that ridicule us on social media, and have named and shamed me so that people tell me that I’m retarded, a bitch and a terrorist, and many other things.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference