Paul Watson Quotes
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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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I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be.
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I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together.
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If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.
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The most powerful weapon in the world, as far as I'm concerned, is the camera.
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We cannot allow activism to be stifled because of all the paranoia going around.
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I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me.
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As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it.
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Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.
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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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Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English.
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Social change comes through people.
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I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now.
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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.
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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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I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades.
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The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.
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I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law.
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My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85.
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The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.
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I'm not really a fugitive.
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Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.
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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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It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.