Top 199 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Watson - Page 2

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

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.

I'm not really a fugitive.

I would just say that nobody could do what I do unless you had a big ego. It's the only way you can really put it. You have to be arrogant enough to challenge the arrogance of the human race.

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.

The fact is, Japan's whaling is illegal, so just because there is a natural disaster in Japan is no reason for us to stop opposing their illegal activities in the Southern Ocean.

No species is more important than others.

Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our annual opposition of their illegal whaling activities.

If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.

Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat.

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.

My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85.

Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.

When I hear so-called professional journalists ask why we have celebrities speak for us and for the animals, the environment or social causes, I marvel at their denial of the rules of their own trade.

People are beginning to realize that we need to live in accordance with the law of ecology, the law of finite resources, and if we don't, we're going to go extinct.

There's no rest when you're on planetary duty.

I don't think you really have to retire from what you do.

The film 'The Cove' made people aware of the Japanese slaughter of whales.

There's money to be made by driving a species extinct.

Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese.

I'm not pessimistic about anything.

It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.

You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life.

I was doing a talk show in Vancouver, and somebody called in a bomb threat to protest my violence, which I thought was pretty strange. We had to evacuate.

I'm never horrible to anybody. My problem, and you can ask any of my friends, is that I'm too nice to everybody.

Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling.

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.

Protesting is fundamentally submissive.

Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.

Domestic house cats kill more fish than all the world's seals put together.

We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years.

The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.

Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.'

Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English.

I'm not interested in culture; I'm interested in the law.

In 'Deadliest Catch,' we have men in ships in rough seas catching crabs. With 'Whale Wars,' we have men and women from a dozen different nations going out to sea in rough weather to help save the whales. We also have icebergs, whales, penguins, and dramatic ship-to-ship confrontations.

People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and make things happen.

Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.

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.

Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.

Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking?

In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses.

I don't have a religion, but I respect them.

Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy.

Being lampooned on 'South Park' is hardly something to complain about. They brought the issue of the dolphin and whale slaughter by the Japanese to a very large audience. I could not really care less how I was portrayed.

I don't care if I put people off.

Putting Zodiacs in front of whaling vessels doesn't do it anymore. Done that, been there, seen that.

Every fish in the ocean is in danger.

The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

I want to stay in the ocean. I'm not going to be able to do that from some holding cell in Japan.

I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together.

Documentaries make a difference.

I wouldn't think I was successful if I didn't have just as many people hate me as support me.

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.

I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and all I see WikiLeaks doing is exposing the truth.

We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.

The oceans are the last free place on the planet.

That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them.

Ships are expendable; the whales are not.

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.