Sea Shepherd Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence.

Paul Watson

#3. As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it.

Paul Watson

#4. 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

#5. Sea Shepherd is to terrorism what Groucho was to Marxism.

Paul Watson

#6. The Sea Shepherd crew is doing what governments should be doing, but refuse to do themselves, because of the threats of trade retaliation from Japan.

Paul Watson

#7. 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.

Paul Watson

#8. I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.

Paul Watson

#9. 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.

Paul Watson

#10. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recognizes that the deaths of four sealers is a tragedy, but Sea Shepherd also recognizes that the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups is an even greater tragedy.

Paul Watson

#11. But the queen
too long she has suffered the pain of love,
hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood,
consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [ ... ]
His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling
no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.

Virgil

#12. Smitty gave his best pout. "Why are y'all trying to hurt me?"
"Because it's fun?"
"It's easy."
"I love it when you cry."
Smitty sighed. "Forget I asked.

Shelly Laurenston

#13. Believing in nothing except the truth of Montgomery, who for all his faults was as steady as the sea, as honest as the sun. My eyes watered with unexpected tears, and I kissed him harder, desperately. It wasn't a happy ending.

Megan Shepherd

#14. We are not at the bargaining table in agreement to end abuse to our world. We are on the battlefield deciding everyday if we will let this world die or live, by how we contribute to its treatment.

Shannon L. Alder

#15. The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune,that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide,lost in a forest remote from all human habitation

Franz Kafka

#16. Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Henry Fielding

#17. Because we were made for him, any place where he isn't will never satisfy us. In

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#18. Never mistake arrogance for intellect.

D.B. Harrop

#19. In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance. It has a name that they call hope and it carries with it people that never stop caring. They learned long ago that extending mercy was not a choice, but a place where God lives.

Shannon L. Alder

#20. Preparing to go to school was like getting ready for extended deep sea diving.

Jean Shepherd

#21. Once dressed he came back downstairs, snapping: "call me a taxi."
So I did. I said, "Dick, you're a taxi.

Gillibran Brown