No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference Quotes

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

“We live in a strange world, where no one dares to look beyond our current political systems even though it's clear that the answers we seek will not be found within the politics of today.
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Where everyone can choose their own reality and buy their own truth.
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We live in a strange world.
But it's the world that my generation has been handed. It's the only world we've got.”
― 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

“People keep doing what they do because the vast majority doesn’t have a clue about the consequences of our everyday life. And they don’t know the rapid changes required.”
― 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

“Those of us who are still children can’t change what you do now once we’re old enough to do something about it.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“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

“Then we start talking about a circular economy and rewilding nature and the need for a just transition. Then you don’t understand what we are talking about.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“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.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“The political system that you have created is all about competition. You cheat when you can, because all that matters is to win, to get power. That must come to an end, we must stop competing with each other, we need to cooperate and work together and to share the resources of the planet in a fair way.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“Don’t you think that a sixteen-year-old can speak for herself?”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“Are we knowingly causing a mass extinction? Are we evil?”
― 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.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“We are Homo sapiens sapiens. Of the family Hominidae. Of the order Primates. Of the class Mammalia. Of the kingdom Animalia. We are a part of nature. We are social animals. We are naturally drawn to our leaders.”
― 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.”
― 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 can live in luxury. But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of few.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“You need to listen to us, we who cannot vote.
You need to vote for us, for your children and grandchildren.
What we are doing now can soon no longer be undone.
In this election, you vote for the future living conditions of humankind.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference