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

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" Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow. "

" Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite. "

" All confrontation is based on deception. "

" An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The fact is, Japan's whaling is illegal, so just because there is a natural disaster in Japan is no reason for us to stop opposing their illegal activities in the Southern Ocean. "

" Protesting is fundamentally submissive. "

" Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth. "

" The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Documentaries make a difference. "

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" In Africa, the rangers shoot poachers. "

" All revolutions are violent revolutions. "

" Greenpeace has a fast ship that could stop the whalers cold. "

" The oceans are the last free place on the planet. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check. "

" I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law. "

" Ships are expendable; the whales are not. "

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

" It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves. "

" Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience. "

" The most powerful weapon in the world, as far as I'm concerned, is the camera. "