Paul Watson Quotes
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That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them.
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I'm not interested in culture; I'm interested in the law.
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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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Talking about the environment in YouTube Video - Cpt. Paul Watson on the environment
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Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.
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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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There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation.
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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.
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Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking?
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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.
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All confrontation is based on deception.
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Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth.
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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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An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales.
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I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As opposed to the anthropocentric point of view, where everything revolves around humanity.
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We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.
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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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I'm thankful to have time to write.
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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.
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Putting Zodiacs in front of whaling vessels doesn't do it anymore. Done that, been there, seen that.
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I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977.
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Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy.
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I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me.
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I'm not pessimistic about anything.