Paul Watson Quotes

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Paul Watson

Profession : Environmentalist

Birth : December 2, 1950

I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.

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Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.

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All confrontation is based on deception.

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If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean.

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Ships are expendable; the whales are not.

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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.

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The most powerful weapon in the world, as far as I'm concerned, is the camera.

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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.

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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.

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The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers.

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We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly.

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Protesting is fundamentally submissive.

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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.

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

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A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate.

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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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Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence.

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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.

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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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Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.

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