Paul Watson

Environmentalist

132 Quotes

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.

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.

I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness.

All confrontation is based on deception.

Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders.

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.

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.

I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.

Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.

Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling.

Social change comes through people.

I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me.

No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy.

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

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

Killing a baby seal is about the easiest thing you can do if you're inclined to be sadistic; you certainly can't say there's any sport in it - the animal is totally defenceless.

An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales.

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

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.

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

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