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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" My clients are the whales and the seals. "

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

" Being lampooned on 'South Park' is hardly something to complain about. They brought the issue of the dolphin and whale slaughter by the Japanese to a very large audience. I could not really care less how I was portrayed. "

" Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged. "

" 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. "

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

" Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence. "

" 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. "

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

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

" There's money to be made by driving a species extinct. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" People feel good about giving money to Greenpeace. "

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

" In Africa, the rangers shoot poachers. "

" Every fish in the ocean is in danger. "

" Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth. "

" Ships are expendable; the whales are not. "

" 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. "

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

" That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them. "

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