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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

" There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit. "

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

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

" The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers. "

" 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 wouldn't think I was successful if I didn't have just as many people hate me as support me. "

" 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. "

" I'm not pessimistic about anything. "

" Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the protection of life and habitats in the sea. He was a legendary mariner, diver, oceanographer, and conservationist. The world is a better place because of him. "

" 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. "

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

" Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy. "

" 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

" The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recognizes that the deaths of four sealers is a tragedy, but Sea Shepherd also recognizes that the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups is an even greater tragedy. "

" 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

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

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

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

" I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. "

Paul Watson

Intelligence

Strength

" You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities. "

" Ecoterrorism is terrorism against the environment. "

" 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. "

" I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me. "

Paul Watson

Take

Work

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Paul Watson

Environmental

I Am

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

" Every fish in the ocean is in danger. "

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