Top 100 Paul Watson Quotes
#1. I don't have a religion, but I respect them.
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#2. Be a voice for the future and a voice for the planet.
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#3. I have an unexplainable belief that I will never cause harm or be harmed while at sea. Because of this, I feel secure at sea: I feel secure in the ice, I feel secure in the storms, and I feel secure in confrontations.
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#4. Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth.
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#5. Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot.
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#6. Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English.
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#8. In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses.
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#9. To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates that we have not evolved very much since the days our forebears lived in caves and saught to prove their superiority by adorning themselves with teeth and claws
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#10. Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.
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#11. If you do not intend to kill anybody, if you make every effort to not kill and injure anybody, that's all you really can do. You can't stop somebody from walking into a situation, and we really can't be too overly preoccupied with this.
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#12. No species is more important than others.
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#13. Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade.
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#14. I'm not interested in culture; I'm interested in the law.
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#15. Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling.
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#16. My position is this. If we can't protect sanctuaries, if we can't save the whales, the sharks, the fish, our oceans will die.
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#17. The seal hunt has made me ashamed to be a Canadian.
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#18. We fired pie filling. That was the Faroes. When they tried to board us, we hit them with forty-five gallon shots of custard and banana creme.
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#19. Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.
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#20. I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness.
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#21. My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me.
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#22. Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our annual opposition of their illegal whaling activities.
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#23. Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence.
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#24. There is no sustainable future for fisheries as long as human populations continue to increase.
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#25. Ships are expendable; the whales are not.
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#26. WE CAN NOT LIVE ON THIS PLANET WITH DEAD OCEANS. IF OUR OCEANS DIE, WE DIE.
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#27. When I was born, there were three billion people on the planet.
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#28. Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the protection of life and habitats in the sea. He was a legendary mariner, diver, oceanographer, and conservationist. The world is a better place because of him.
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#29. If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don't look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.
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#30. I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977.
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#31. If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean.
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#32. A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate.
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#33. Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.
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#34. Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.
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#35. The oceans are the last free place on the planet.
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#36. Japan is a bully nation that takes what it wants and threatens any who oppose it.
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#38. Earthworms are far more valuable than people.
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#39. It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.
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#40. I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries of the laws of ecology.
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#41. That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in .
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#42. Protesting is fundamentally submissive.
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#43. When I hear so-called professional journalists ask why we have celebrities speak for us and for the animals, the environment or social causes, I marvel at their denial of the rules of their own trade.
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#44. We're just a conceited naked ape, but in our minds we're some 'divine legend' and we see ourselves as some sort of god, thinking we can decide what will live and what will die, what will be saved and what will be destroyed, but honestly we're just a bunch of primates out of control.
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#45. The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers.
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#46. I want to stay in the ocean. I'm not going to be able to do that from some holding cell in Japan.
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#47. Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders.
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#49. I was doing a talk show in Vancouver, and somebody called in a bomb threat to protest my violence, which I thought was pretty strange. We had to evacuate.
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#50. Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues.
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#51. To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme.
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#53. We live in a media culture and whoever controls and influences and uses media the best has the power for change.
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#54. The fact is I have never been convicted of a crime.
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#55. You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing.
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#56. The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.
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#57. Ecoterrorism is terrorism against the environment.
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#58. I feel that people should have a license to have children, that they have proper education how to raise children. And that nobody should be allowed to be a parent unless they can prove that they are competent enough to be a parent.
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#59. Bluefin tuna is sort of like the cheetah of the ocean. It's the fastest fish. It's a warm-blooded fish. But it's got a $100,000 price tag on its head.
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#60. We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.
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#61. I would just say that nobody could do what I do unless you had a big ego. It's the only way you can really put it. You have to be arrogant enough to challenge the arrogance of the human race.
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#62. The fact is, Japan's whaling is illegal, so just because there is a natural disaster in Japan is no reason for us to stop opposing their illegal activities in the Southern Ocean.
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#63. Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged.
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#64. The film 'The Cove' made people aware of the Japanese slaughter of whales.
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#65. I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms ... Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.
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#66. All of the great whales are endangered.
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#67. Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that.
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#68. Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.
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#69. It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew.
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#70. Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.
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#71. I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.
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#72. Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans.
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#73. Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking?
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#74. The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.
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#75. The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.
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#76. I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me.
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#77. I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.
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#78. I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me.
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#79. Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.
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#80. I wouldn't think I was successful if I didn't have just as many people hate me as support me.
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#81. An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales.
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#82. We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population of humanity.
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#83. The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check.
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#85. I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.
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#86. Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.
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#88. I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today.
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#89. Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.
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#90. I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.
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#91. In Africa, the rangers shoot poachers.
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#92. I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.'
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#93. That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them.
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#94. We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.
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#95. I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together.
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#96. The Ady Gil, a Sea Shepherd vessel, it's a fast patrol boat, was sitting still in the water when the Shonan Maru #2 came by, deliberately turned into it, rammed it, cut it in half, sunk it and destroyed it.
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#97. This is the contradiction we have in the media. We love vigilantes: Batman, Tarzan, Green Arrow - the comic books and the TV shows are filled with vigilantes. We love to promote it. Jesus Christ was a vigilante. We admire these people, but we don't want to be associated with them.
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#98. They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.
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#99. Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.
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#100. The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
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