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" My clients are the whales and the seals. "
Paul Watson
Whales
Seals
Clients
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" I have an unexplainable belief that I will never cause harm or be harmed while at sea. Because of this, I feel secure at sea: I feel secure in the ice, I feel secure in the storms, and I feel secure in confrontations. "
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" 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. "
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" I want to stay in the ocean. I'm not going to be able to do that from some holding cell in Japan. "
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" Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that. "
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" I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn't get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one. "
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" Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people. "
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" Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English. "
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None
Bargain
" Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth. "
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" All revolutions are violent revolutions. "
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Revolutions
" 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. "
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Go
Law
" In Africa, the rangers shoot poachers. "
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Rangers
Africa
Shoot
" There are very few fishermen left today. "
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Today
Left
" Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence. "
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" 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. "
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" A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate. "
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Fish
Swimming
" I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.' "
Paul Watson
Play
Pirate
Always
" No species is more important than others. "
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Species
Others
More
" Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal. "
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Fish
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Like
" There's no rest when you're on planetary duty. "
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Rest
Duty
" Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.' "
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Business
Fishing
" The oceans are the last free place on the planet. "
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" 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. "
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Race
You
" Greenpeace has a fast ship that could stop the whalers cold. "
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Stop
Cold
" 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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" Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on. "
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Been
" Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders. "
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