Paul Watson famous quotes

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.
-- Paul Watson

#War #Animal #Rights

As for myself, I do not believe in loggers, I believe in trees. I do not believe in fishermen, I believe in fish. I do not believe in miners, I believe in the rocks beneath my feet. I do not believe in pie in the sky spirituality, I believe in rainbows, rivers, mountains, and moss. I do not believe in environmentalists, I believe in the environment. I am a proud traitor to my species in alliance with my mother the Earth in opposition to those who would destroy her, those parasites who believe the Earth is here to serve human interests.
-- Paul Watson

#Mother #Believe #Rocks

In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for.
-- Paul Watson

#What Matters #Long #Schemes

A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.
-- Paul Watson

#Riding A Bicycle #Meat #Vegan

We should never feel like we're going too far in breaking the law, because whatever laws you break to liberate animals or to protect the environment are very insignificant compared to the laws that are broken by that parliament of ***** in Washington. They are the biggest lawbreakers, the biggest destroyers, the biggest mass-murderers on this planet right now.
-- Paul Watson

#Animal #Law #Broken

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.
-- Paul Watson

#Animal #Environment #Harmony

It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.
-- Paul Watson

#Believe #People #Matter

Social change comes through people.
-- Paul Watson

#People #Social #Social Change

Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from the jungle yet the developed world thinks nothing of hauling in magnificent wild creatures like swordfish, tuna, halibut, shark, and salmon for our meals. The fact is that the global slaughter of marine wildlife is simply the largest massacre of wildlife on the planet.
-- Paul Watson

#Marine #Thinking #Hunting

That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in .
-- Paul Watson

#Believe #Culture #Violence

To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates that we have not evolved very much since the days our forebears lived in caves and saught to prove their superiority by adorning themselves with teeth and claws
-- Paul Watson

#Beautiful #Marine #Teeth

I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.
-- Paul Watson

#Men #Ideas #Apes

I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. These beings have spoken to me, touched me, and I have been rewarded by friendship with many members of different species. If the whales survive and flourish, if the seals continue to live and give birth, and if I can contribute to ensuring their future prosperity, I will be forever happy.
-- Paul Watson

#Whales #Giving #Forever

Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth.
-- Paul Watson

#Lying #People #Goebbels

It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth and a myth-generating machine.
-- Paul Watson

#Believe #Media #People

I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.
-- Paul Watson

#Kids #Bird #Going Out

The fact is I have never been convicted of a crime.
-- Paul Watson

#Facts #Crime

There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history.
-- Paul Watson

#Writing #Winning #Long

If you don't know an answer, a fact, a statistic - make it up on the spot.
-- Paul Watson

#Facts #Answers #Spots

We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. We need to eliminate nationalism and tribalism and become Earthlings. And as Earthlings, we need to recognize that all the other species that live on this planet are also fellow citizens and also Earthlings. This is a planet of incredible diversity of life-forms; it is not a planet of one species as many of us believe.
-- Paul Watson

#Believe #Diversity #Needs

The Ady Gil, a Sea Shepherd vessel, it's a fast patrol boat, was sitting still in the water when the Shonan Maru #2 came by, deliberately turned into it, rammed it, cut it in half, sunk it and destroyed it.
-- Paul Watson

#Cutting #Sea #Water

All of the great whales are endangered.
-- Paul Watson

#Whales

They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.
-- Paul Watson

#Years #Paper #Peers

WE CAN NOT LIVE ON THIS PLANET WITH DEAD OCEANS. IF OUR OCEANS DIE, WE DIE.
-- Paul Watson

#Ocean #Planets #Can Not

We need to stop burning fossil fuels and utilize only wind, water, and solar power with all generation of power coming from individual or small community units like windmills, waterwheels, and solar panels. Sea transportation should be by sail...Air transportation should be by solar powered blimps when air transportation is necessary.
-- Paul Watson

#Air #Wind #Sea

We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.
-- Paul Watson

#Intelligent #Trying #Planets

What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
-- Paul Watson

#Hero #Soul #Ruins

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

#Hypocrite #Planets #Being A Hypocrite

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

#Dream #Skills #World

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

#Warrior #Fighting #Odds

It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew.
-- Paul Watson

#Passion #Sea #Volunteer

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
-- Paul Watson

#Tragedy #Incentives #Ecology

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 youre completely out of your mind.
-- Paul Watson

#Average #Years #Cities

Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.
-- Paul Watson

#Growth #Immigration #Population

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.
-- Paul Watson

#Sharks #Years #Sea

Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If we dont find answers to these problems, were gonna be victims of this extinction event that were at fault for.
-- Paul Watson

#Animal #Years #Answers

Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.
-- Paul Watson

#Conceited #Religion #Apes

Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans will die. And if the oceans die, then civilization collapses and we all die
-- Paul Watson

#Ocean #Marine #Civilization

North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks.
-- Paul Watson

#Cat #Animal #Together

Back in 1980, whale watching surpassed whaling as an industry. Now it's worth about four times as much. Whale watching provides far, far more jobs to people than whaling ever did. Whale watching has become an ally in the fight to end whaling.
-- Paul Watson

#Jobs #Fighting #Animal

This isn't a hunt that's going to kill just four or five gray whales. The repercussions of this will have an effect on tens of thousands of whales that will be killed by the Japanese and Norwegians.
-- Paul Watson

#Animal #Whales #Four

I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today.
-- Paul Watson

#Animal #Whales #Today

Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot.
-- Paul Watson

#Animal #Ice #Hunters

Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish.
-- Paul Watson

#Animal #Puffins #Chickens

We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.
-- Paul Watson

#Thinking #Animal #Whales

Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.
-- Paul Watson

#Animal #Pigs #Sharks

They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit... they're a bunch of wimps.
-- Paul Watson

#Animal #Wimps #Purpose

Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues.
-- Paul Watson

#Animal #Hunting #Years

You can't love nature with a gun
-- Paul Watson

#Gun #Nature Love

We're just a conceited naked ape, but in our minds we're some 'divine legend' and we see ourselves as some sort of god, thinking we can decide what will live and what will die, what will be saved and what will be destroyed, but honestly we're just a bunch of primates out of control.
-- Paul Watson

#Conceited #Thinking #Mind