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" I'm not interested in culture; I'm interested in the law. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I don't care if I put people off. "

" My clients are the whales and the seals. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The seal hunt has made me ashamed to be a Canadian. "

" 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. "

" I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness. "