Paul Watson Quotes
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Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.
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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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Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.
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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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My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85.
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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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Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged.
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I don't think you really have to retire from what you do.
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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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Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.
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There's money to be made by driving a species extinct.
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I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.
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I'm not really a fugitive.
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I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together.
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I'm never horrible to anybody. My problem, and you can ask any of my friends, is that I'm too nice to everybody.
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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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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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Social change comes through people.
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You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life.
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It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.
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We cannot allow activism to be stifled because of all the paranoia going around.
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I don't care if I put people off.
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In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses.
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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.