Paul Watson Quotes

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Paul Watson

Profession : Environmentalist

Birth : December 2, 1950

I feel that people should have a license to have children, that they have proper education how to raise children. And that nobody should be allowed to be a parent unless they can prove that they are competent enough to be a parent.

Paul Watson

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

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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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Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that.

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Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged.

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It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew.

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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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Ecoterrorism is terrorism against the environment.

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Japan is a bully nation that takes what it wants and threatens any who oppose it.

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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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Sea Shepherd is to terrorism what Groucho was to Marxism.

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