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