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" It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew. "

Paul Watson

Sea

True

Passion

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" As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it. "

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

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

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

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" When I hear so-called professional journalists ask why we have celebrities speak for us and for the animals, the environment or social causes, I marvel at their denial of the rules of their own trade. "

" Documentaries make a difference. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change. "

" In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I'm not pessimistic about anything. "

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

" 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. "

" The Brer Rabbit ploy has been quite effective for me. When a country is talking about prosecuting me, I demand to be charged and put on trial and offer to pay my own airfare. They know that I'm going to bring a lot of international media with me and put their whaling programme on trial, and they decide it's better to keep quiet and do nothing. "

" 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

" 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 have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together. "

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

" I used to swim with these beavers in a beaver pond when I was 10. I went back when I was 11 and found there were no more beavers. I found that trappers had taken them all, so I became quite angry, and that winter I began to walk the trap lines and free animals from the traps and destroy the traps. "

" The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark. "

" Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that. "

" Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy. "

" I'm not really a fugitive. "

Paul Watson

Really

Fugitive

" Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat. "

" 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. "