Japanese Whaling Quotes

#1. When a chainsaw rips into a 2,000 year old redwood tree, it's ripping into my guts. When a bulldozer plows through the Amazon rainforest, it's ripping through my side. And when a Japanese whaling ship fires an exploding harpoon into a great whale it's my heart that's being blown to smithereens.

David Foreman

#2. The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.

Paul Watson

#3. 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.

Paul Watson

#4. You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.

Sam Shepard

#5. I'm sure no intelligent white person in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons and daughters and in return introducing their grandchildren to half brown, kinky haired black people.

Muhammad Ali

#6. We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. Whaling should stop because it brings needless suffering to social, intelligent animals capable of enjoying their own lives. But against the Japanese charge of cultural bias, Western nations will have little defense until they do much more about the needless animal suffering in their own countries.

Peter Singer

#8. The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment.

Simon Jenkins

#9. Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces.

Sandra Cisneros

#10. Some things were never meant to be recycled.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#11. A local company has more accountability.

Paul Hawken

#12. In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society U.S.A. to not approach within 500 yards of the whaling vessels.

Paul Watson

#13. It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#14. However spontaneous I hope a photograph will look, I always put a lot of thought into how I can make it happen. The very best pictures are the most relaxed, so a lot of fussing around technically can completely break the spell, and everyone freezes up with nerves.

Mario Testino

#15. The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

Herbert Hoover

#16. Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#17. Value the process.

Robert Rauschenberg

#18. 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.

Paul Watson

#19. But Basquiat is the first thing I've done that I'm really proud of.

Claire Forlani

#20. The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.

Nick Joaquin