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Paul Watson Quotes

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

– Paul Watson

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

– Paul Watson

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.

– Paul Watson

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

– Paul Watson

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

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

– Paul Watson

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.

– Paul Watson

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.

– Paul Watson

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.

– Paul Watson

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

– Paul Watson

The film ‘The Cove’ made people aware of the Japanese slaughter of whales.

– Paul Watson

People feel good about giving money to Greenpeace.

– Paul Watson

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

– Paul Watson

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

– Paul Watson

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

– Paul Watson

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

– Paul Watson

An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales.

– Paul Watson

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

– Paul Watson

I’m not interested in culture; I’m interested in the law.

– Paul Watson

I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness.

– Paul Watson

My clients are the whales and the seals.

– Paul Watson

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

– Paul Watson

Every fish in the ocean is in danger.

– Paul Watson

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.

– Paul Watson

I’m never horrible to anybody. My problem, and you can ask any of my friends, is that I’m too nice to everybody.

– Paul Watson

Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.

– Paul Watson

There are very few fishermen left today.

– Paul Watson

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

– Paul Watson

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

– Paul Watson

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.

– Paul Watson

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