Greta Thunburg

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

“We are living in the beginning of a mass extinction and our climate is breaking down.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“I believe that one person can make a difference.”

“I like school and I like learning.”

“We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.”

“I do not see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that... I have not really done anything.”

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

“When I have been travelling around to speak in different countries, I am always offered help to write about the specific climate policies in specific countries. But that is not really necessary. Because the basic problem is the same everywhere.”

“We are at a time in history where everyone with any insight of the climate crisis that threatens our civilisation - and the entire biosphere - must speak out in clear language, no matter how uncomfortable and unprofitable that may be.”

“By stopping flying, you don't only reduce your own carbon footprint but also that sends a signal to other people around you that the climate crisis is a real thing and that helps push a political movement.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge we have failed.”

“I'm not saying that people should stop flying. I'm just saying it needs to be easier to be climate neutral.”