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" 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. "
Paul Watson
Animal
You
Baby
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" Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change. "
Paul Watson
Pay
You
Sometimes
" 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. "
Paul Watson
Man
Words
Woman
" Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence. "
Paul Watson
Shepherd
Does
Nor
" I'm never horrible to anybody. My problem, and you can ask any of my friends, is that I'm too nice to everybody. "
Paul Watson
Ask
Never
Nice
" 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. "
Paul Watson
Park
Complain
Whale
" Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling. "
Paul Watson
Way
Back
Party
" 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. "
Paul Watson
Law
World
United Nations
" 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
" There are very few fishermen left today. "
Paul Watson
Fishermen
Today
Left
" 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. "
Paul Watson
View
Everything
Earth
" I want to stay in the ocean. I'm not going to be able to do that from some holding cell in Japan. "
Paul Watson
Stay
Some
Japan
" 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. "
Paul Watson
Head
Price
Ocean
" People feel good about giving money to Greenpeace. "
Paul Watson
People
Money
Good
" Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English. "
Paul Watson
English
None
Bargain
" Protesting is fundamentally submissive. "
Paul Watson
Submissive
Protesting
Fundamentally
" I'm not interested in culture; I'm interested in the law. "
Paul Watson
Interested
Law
Not Interested
" 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
" The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics. "
Paul Watson
Language
Industry
Economics
" My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85. "
Paul Watson
Me
His
Around
" When I was born, there were three billion people on the planet. "
Paul Watson
Born
I Was Born
People
" Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.' "
Paul Watson
Fraud
Business
Fishing
" We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years. "
Paul Watson
Diversity
Plants
Over
" We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If we don't find answers to these problems, we're gonna be victims of this extinction event that we're at fault for. "
Paul Watson
Plants
Lost
Problems
" Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on. "
Paul Watson
Ships
Actions
Been
" I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.' "
Paul Watson
Play
Pirate
Always
" You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities. "
Paul Watson
Ever
Reality
Many
" 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. "
Paul Watson
Ego
Race
You
" Social change comes through people. "
Paul Watson
Social Change
Through
Change
" All confrontation is based on deception. "
Paul Watson
Deception
Confrontation
Based
" Greenpeace has a fast ship that could stop the whalers cold. "
Paul Watson
Could
Stop
Cold