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" 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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" I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing I am certain of is that I and my passionate crew of international volunteers will never quit defending life in the seas from poachers, no matter what consequences we must endure to do so. "

" Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The oceans are the last free place on the planet. "

" All confrontation is based on deception. "

" To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme. "

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

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

" Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking? "

" The sealing industry is dying. "

" In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society U.S.A. to not approach within 500 yards of the whaling vessels. "

" Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.' "

" We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, 'You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline?' Everybody would look at you like you're completely out of your mind. "

" Bluefin tuna is sort of like the cheetah of the ocean. It's the fastest fish. It's a warm-blooded fish. But it's got a $100,000 price tag on its head. "

" It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves. "

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

" The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our annual opposition of their illegal whaling activities. "

" 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. "