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We go after unlawful activities.

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

Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.'

Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling.

All confrontation is based on deception.

Documentaries make a difference.

I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and all I see WikiLeaks doing is exposing the truth.

There's money to be made by driving a species extinct.

Every fish in the ocean is in danger.

I don't care if I put people off.

Domestic house cats kill more fish than all the world's seals put together.

Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.

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.

All of the great whales are endangered.

In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero.

Be a voice for the future and a voice for the planet.

To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme.

The film 'The Cove' made people aware of the Japanese slaughter of whales.

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

There are very few fishermen left today.

I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977.

The seal hunt has made me ashamed to be a Canadian.

My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85.

We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.

Ecoterrorism is terrorism against the environment.

In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for.

The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check.

Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that.

Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.

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.

In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses.

An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales.

We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population of humanity.

Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.

Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans.

Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.

Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.

Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English.

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

That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in .

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

The sealing industry is dying.

I'm not really a fugitive.

I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.'

It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.

It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.

I'm thankful to have time to write.

In Africa, the rangers shoot poachers.

Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat.

Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.

I can't think of a greater legacy than, "Because you lived, another species survived."

Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese.

NATO isn't going to be concerned about fishing.

The fact is I have never been convicted of a crime.

Putting Zodiacs in front of whaling vessels doesn't do it anymore. Done that, been there, seen that.

No species is more important than others.

We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly.

There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.

I'm never horrible to anybody. My problem, and you can ask any of my friends, is that I'm too nice to everybody.

They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.

I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.

Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.

Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged.

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness.

The oceans are the last free place on the planet.

We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.

Earthworms are far more valuable than people.

Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.

People feel good about giving money to Greenpeace.

Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal.

If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.

Sea Shepherd is to terrorism what Groucho was to Marxism.

You can't love nature with a gun

When I was born, there were three billion people on the planet.

There's no rest when you're on planetary duty.

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.

We live in a media culture and whoever controls and influences and uses media the best has the power for change.

There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation.

I don't think you really have to retire from what you do.

A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.

I'm not interested in culture; I'm interested in the law.

The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers.

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.

You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing.

Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking?

I don't have a religion, but I respect them.

I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now.

My clients are the whales and the seals.

You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.

I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me.

Protesting is fundamentally submissive.

I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.

Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot.

The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.

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.

There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history.

North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks.

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.