Paul Watson

Social change comes through people.

— Paul Watson

Sea Shepherd is to terrorism what Groucho was to Marxism.

— Paul Watson

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

— Paul Watson

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

— Paul Watson

The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are…

— Paul Watson

We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population…

— 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

It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion…

— Paul Watson

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

— Paul Watson

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

— Paul Watson

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand…

— 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…

— Paul Watson

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

— Paul Watson

I'm not pessimistic about anything.

— Paul Watson

I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now.

— Paul Watson

Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If…

— Paul Watson

I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.

— Paul Watson

When I hear so-called professional journalists ask why we have celebrities speak for us and for the animals, the environment or social…

— Paul Watson

We're just a conceited naked ape, but in our minds we're some 'divine legend' and we see ourselves as some sort of…

— Paul Watson

Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish,…

— Paul Watson

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

— Paul Watson

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve…

— Paul Watson

North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for…

— Paul Watson

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

— Paul Watson

We live in a media culture and whoever controls and influences and uses media the best has the power for change.

— Paul Watson