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" You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation. "

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

" In 'Deadliest Catch,' we have men in ships in rough seas catching crabs. With 'Whale Wars,' we have men and women from a dozen different nations going out to sea in rough weather to help save the whales. We also have icebergs, whales, penguins, and dramatic ship-to-ship confrontations. "

" 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. "

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

" The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics. "

" The seal hunt has made me ashamed to be a Canadian. "

" All confrontation is based on deception. "

" Sea Shepherd is to terrorism what Groucho was to Marxism. "

" 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. "

" No species is more important than others. "

" Protesting is fundamentally submissive. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together. "

" 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. "

" I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.' "

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

" I'm not really a fugitive. "

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

" 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. "

" Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that. "

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

" Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our annual opposition of their illegal whaling activities. "

" No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy. "