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

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Social change comes through people.

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

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

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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.

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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...

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

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Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.

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People feel good about giving money to Greenpeace.

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Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the protection of life and habitats in the sea. He was a legendary mariner, diver, oceanographer, and conservationist. The world...

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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 p...

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

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I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades.

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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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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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There's money to be made by driving a species extinct.

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The United Nations World Charter for Nature, section 21, empowers any nongovernmental organisation or individual to uphold international conservation law in areas beyond national jurisdiction and specifically on the high seas.

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I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be.

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

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

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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.

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Author Bio

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