Quotes by Paul Watson

About Paul Watson:

Paul Franklin Watson is a Canadian environmental activist, who founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a direct action group focused on marine conservation.
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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.

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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.

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Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.

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

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All confrontation is based on deception.

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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.

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My clients are the whales and the seals.

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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.

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

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There are very few fishermen left today.

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If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean.

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Ships are expendable; the whales are not.

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Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.

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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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The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.

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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.

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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.

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

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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...

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The most powerful weapon in the world, as far as I'm concerned, is the camera.

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Author Bio

  • NamePaul Watson
  • DescriptionCanadian environmental activist
  • BornDecember 2, 1950
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionEnvironmentalist
  • AwardsRobert Capa Gold Medal