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

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" Japan is a bully nation that takes what it wants and threatens any who oppose it. "

" Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans. "

" 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. "

" I want to stay in the ocean. I'm not going to be able to do that from some holding cell in Japan. "

" 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. "

" In Africa, the rangers shoot poachers. "

" Ecoterrorism is terrorism against the environment. "

" I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians. "

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" Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders. "

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

" All confrontation is based on deception. "

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