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" We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years. "

Paul Watson

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

" 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. "

" That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them. "

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

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

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

" I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and all I see WikiLeaks doing is exposing the truth. "

" All confrontation is based on deception. "

" I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now. "

" Being lampooned on 'South Park' is hardly something to complain about. They brought the issue of the dolphin and whale slaughter by the Japanese to a very large audience. I could not really care less how I was portrayed. "

" I don't have a religion, but I respect them. "

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

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

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

" Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal. "

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

" 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. "

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" I have an unexplainable belief that I will never cause harm or be harmed while at sea. Because of this, I feel secure at sea: I feel secure in the ice, I feel secure in the storms, and I feel secure in confrontations. "

" I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing I am certain of is that I and my passionate crew of international volunteers will never quit defending life in the seas from poachers, no matter what consequences we must endure to do so. "

" There are very few fishermen left today. "

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

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" Putting Zodiacs in front of whaling vessels doesn't do it anymore. Done that, been there, seen that. "

" I feel that people should have a license to have children, that they have proper education how to raise children. And that nobody should be allowed to be a parent unless they can prove that they are competent enough to be a parent. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy. "

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

" 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. "