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" 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
Go
After
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" Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English. "
Paul Watson
English
None
Bargain
" All confrontation is based on deception. "
Paul Watson
Deception
Confrontation
Based
" Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy. "
Paul Watson
Hypocrisy
Eat
Fish
" Ecoterrorism is terrorism against the environment. "
Paul Watson
Environment
Against
Terrorism
" The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers. "
Paul Watson
Only
Lawyers
Than
" A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate. "
Paul Watson
Integrity
Fish
Swimming
" Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking? "
Paul Watson
Thinking
Eating
People
" I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now. "
Paul Watson
Eat
Fish
Fishing
" 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. "
Paul Watson
Own
Condemn
Crew
" 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. "
Paul Watson
Warrior
I Am
Fight
" You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities. "
Paul Watson
Ever
Reality
Many
" 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. "
Paul Watson
Mind
Look
Know
" Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth. "
Paul Watson
Population
Growth
Immigration
" Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet. "
Paul Watson
Look
I Am
Conservative
" I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me. "
Paul Watson
Me
Take
Work
" 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
Go
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. "
Paul Watson
Doing
Because
Sea
" I'm not interested in culture; I'm interested in the law. "
Paul Watson
Interested
Law
Not Interested
" I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness. "
Paul Watson
Nothing
Find
Bear
" The most powerful weapon in the world, as far as I'm concerned, is the camera. "
Paul Watson
Camera
Most
World
" Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged. "
Paul Watson
Hurt
Nobody
Property
" Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change. "
Paul Watson
Pay
You
Sometimes
" I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977. "
Paul Watson
Left
Seen
Die
" I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and all I see WikiLeaks doing is exposing the truth. "
Paul Watson
Doing
Government
See
" I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be. "
Paul Watson
Earthquake
California
Nature
" It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves. "
Paul Watson
Save
Planet
Think
" I'm not pessimistic about anything. "
Paul Watson
Anything
Pessimistic
About
" There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation. "
Paul Watson
Disgruntled
Policy
Quite
" The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it. "
Paul Watson
Tragedy
More
Money
" 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. "
Paul Watson
Reading
Child
Friend