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

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" There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit. "

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

" 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. "

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

" People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I? "

" I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation. "

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

" People feel good about giving money to Greenpeace. "

" Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy. "

" Sea Shepherd is to terrorism what Groucho was to Marxism. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the protection of life and habitats in the sea. He was a legendary mariner, diver, oceanographer, and conservationist. The world is a better place because of him. "

" 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. "

" When I was born, there were three billion people on the planet. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.' "

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

" 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. "

" There are very few fishermen left today. "

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