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" 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. "

Paul Watson

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Responsibility

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

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Paul Watson

Take

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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. "

Paul Watson

Beginning

Law

" 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. "

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

Paul Watson

Trouble

After

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

" 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. "

" Social change comes through people. "

" Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world. "

" The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers. "

" All confrontation is based on deception. "

" Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy. "

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

" 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. "

" The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recognizes that the deaths of four sealers is a tragedy, but Sea Shepherd also recognizes that the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups is an even greater tragedy. "

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

" I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" There are very few fishermen left today. "

" 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. "

" If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court. "

" 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. "

" Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese. "

Paul Watson

Government

Canada

" 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. "

" A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate. "