Paul Watson Quotes
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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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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.
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All revolutions are violent revolutions.
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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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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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There are very few fishermen left today.
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The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check.
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Sea Shepherd is to terrorism what Groucho was to Marxism.
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Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade.
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I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.
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I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.'
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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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We are pirates of compassion hunting down, hunting down and destroying pirates of profit.
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To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme.
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The Brer Rabbit ploy has been quite effective for me. When a country is talking about prosecuting me, I demand to be charged and put on trial and offer to pay my own airfare. They know that I'm going to bring a lot of international media with me and put their whaling programme on trial, and they decide it's better to keep quiet and do nothing.
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Japan is a bully nation that takes what it wants and threatens any who oppose it.
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The sealing industry is dying.
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Ships are expendable; the whales are not.
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I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness.
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All of our targets were criminals, they were all operating in violation of international whaling laws.