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The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it. — Paul Watson

We go after unlawful activities. — Paul Watson

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

WE CAN NOT LIVE ON THIS PLANET WITH DEAD OCEANS. IF OUR OCEANS DIE, WE DIE. — Paul Watson

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

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

There is no sustainable future for fisheries as long as human populations continue to increase. — Paul Watson

Documentaries make a difference. — Paul Watson

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. — Paul Watson

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

Every fish in the ocean is in danger. — Paul Watson

I don't care if I put people off. — Paul Watson

A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate. — Paul Watson

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

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. — Paul Watson

All of the great whales are endangered. — Paul Watson

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

Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy. — Paul Watson

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

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. — Paul Watson

Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion. — Paul Watson

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

I wouldn't think I was successful if I didn't have just as many people hate me as support me. — Paul Watson

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

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. — Paul Watson

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

My clients are the whales and the seals. — Paul Watson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth. — Paul Watson

Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow. — Paul Watson

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

I'm not pessimistic about anything. — Paul Watson

People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I? — Paul Watson

NATO isn't going to be concerned about fishing. — Paul Watson

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

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

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

That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them. — Paul Watson

Be a voice for the future and a voice for the planet. — Paul Watson

I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today. — Paul Watson

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

There are very few fishermen left today. — Paul Watson

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

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

My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85. — Paul Watson

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. — Paul Watson

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

Ecoterrorism is terrorism against the environment. — Paul Watson

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

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

Social change comes through people. — Paul Watson

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. — Paul Watson

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

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

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

Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy. — Paul Watson

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

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

All revolutions are violent revolutions. — Paul Watson

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

Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth. — Paul Watson

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

Earthworms are far more valuable than people. — Paul Watson

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

People feel good about giving money to Greenpeace. — Paul Watson

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. — Paul Watson

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

Sea Shepherd is to terrorism what Groucho was to Marxism. — Paul Watson

You can't love nature with a gun — Paul Watson

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

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

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

The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers. — Paul Watson

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

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

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

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

Japan is a bully nation that takes what it wants and threatens any who oppose it. — Paul Watson

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. — Paul Watson

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

Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders. — Paul Watson

If you don't know an answer, a fact, a statistic - make it up on the spot. — Paul Watson

I'm not interested in culture; I'm interested in the law. — Paul Watson

Protesting is fundamentally submissive. — Paul Watson

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

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

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

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. — Paul Watson

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

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. — Paul Watson

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. — Paul Watson

The oceans are the last free place on the planet. — Paul Watson

No species is more important than others. — Paul Watson