We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.
— Paul Watson
I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.
Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence.
I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.
The Brer Rabbit ploy has been quite effective for me. When a country is talking about prosecuting me, I demand to be charged and put on trial and offer to pay my own airfare. They know that I'm going to bring a lot of international media with me and put their whaling programme on trial, and they decide it's better to keep quiet and do nothing.
People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?
You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.
I'm thankful to have time to write.
The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.
Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders.
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.
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 is a better place because of him.
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.
As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it.
In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero.
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.
I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness.
I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977.
I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.'
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 seal hunt has made me ashamed to be a Canadian.
The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers.
There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation.
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.
All confrontation is based on deception.
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.
People feel good about giving money to Greenpeace.
Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.
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.
Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.
We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly.
The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check.
