Paul Watson Quotes

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• It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.…
• 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…
• Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth.
• There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history.
• 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…
• That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in .
• 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…
• If you don't know an answer, a fact, a statistic - make it up on the spot.
• 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…
• 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,…
• All of the great whales are endangered.
• They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.
• The fact is I have never been convicted of a crime.
• I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.
• 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…
• I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of…
• 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…

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