Paul Watson Quotes
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Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence.
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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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Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.
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I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn't get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one.
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I have an unexplainable belief that I will never cause harm or be harmed while at sea. Because of this, I feel secure at sea: I feel secure in the ice, I feel secure in the storms, and I feel secure in confrontations.
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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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There are very few fishermen left today.
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Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans.
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Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat.
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I used to swim with these beavers in a beaver pond when I was 10. I went back when I was 11 and found there were no more beavers. I found that trappers had taken them all, so I became quite angry, and that winter I began to walk the trap lines and free animals from the traps and destroy the traps.
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Greenpeace has a fast ship that could stop the whalers cold.
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I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing I am certain of is that I and my passionate crew of international volunteers will never quit defending life in the seas from poachers, no matter what consequences we must endure to do so.
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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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In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero.
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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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Protesting is fundamentally submissive.
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We cannot allow activism to be stifled because of all the paranoia going around.
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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.
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Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.
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Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.
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The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.
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Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.
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The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recognizes that the deaths of four sealers is a tragedy, but Sea Shepherd also recognizes that the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups is an even greater tragedy.
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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.