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" The Sea Shepherd crew is doing what governments should be doing, but refuse to do themselves, because of the threats of trade retaliation from Japan. "

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" I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" When I hear so-called professional journalists ask why we have celebrities speak for us and for the animals, the environment or social causes, I marvel at their denial of the rules of their own trade. "

" The sealing industry is dying. "

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" People feel good about giving money to Greenpeace. "

" I'm not pessimistic about anything. "

" 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. "

" We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly. "

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

" 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. "

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

" My clients are the whales and the seals. "

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

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" We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, 'You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline?' Everybody would look at you like you're completely out of your mind. "

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" To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme. "

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" Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion. "

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