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" My clients are the whales and the seals. "

" 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. "

" The United Nations World Charter for Nature, section 21, empowers any nongovernmental organisation or individual to uphold international conservation law in areas beyond national jurisdiction and specifically on the high seas. "

" Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy. "

" Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience. "

" My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85. "

" I wouldn't think I was successful if I didn't have just as many people hate me as support me. "

" Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat. "

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

" Putting Zodiacs in front of whaling vessels doesn't do it anymore. Done that, been there, seen that. "

" All revolutions are violent revolutions. "

" Greenpeace has a fast ship that could stop the whalers cold. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion. "

" NATO isn't going to be concerned about fishing. "

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

" Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth. "

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

" We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English. "

" I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law. "

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

" In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero. "

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

" I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977. "

" 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. "