Paul Watson Quotes
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Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.
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Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.
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If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.
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There's money to be made by driving a species extinct.
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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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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 don't think you really have to retire from what you do.
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Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.
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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 eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now.
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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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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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I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together.
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I'm not really a fugitive.
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I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.
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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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We cannot allow activism to be stifled because of all the paranoia going around.
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Social change comes through people.
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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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It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.
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You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life.
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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 don't care if I put people off.
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The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.