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" People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and make things happen. "

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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. "

Paul Watson

Know

Talking

Quiet

" I don't think you really have to retire from what you do. "

" If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court. "

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

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

" 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. "

" People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I? "

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

" The sealing industry is dying. "

" Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged. "

" You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life. "

" 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. "

" Domestic house cats kill more fish than all the world's seals put together. "

Paul Watson

Cats

House

" 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

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

" I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

After

" The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war. "

" Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on. "

" Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese. "

Paul Watson

Government

Canada

" My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85. "

Paul Watson

His

Around

" Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking? "

" 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. "

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

Paul Watson

Tragedy

Money

" Every fish in the ocean is in danger. "