"I reject the idea that humans are superior……" — Paul Watson
"I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority."
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112 Quotes by Paul Watson
Paul Watson has 112 quotes on this site.
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It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.
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We're just a conceited naked ape, but in our minds we're some 'divine legend' and we see ourselves as some…
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To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates…
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If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where…
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Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird…
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Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see…
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There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history.
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As for myself, I do not believe in loggers, I believe in trees. I do not believe in fishermen, I…
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That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what…
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We should never feel like we're going too far in breaking the law, because whatever laws you break to liberate…
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If you don't know an answer, a fact, a statistic - make it up on the spot.
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We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. We need to eliminate nationalism and…
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More Ape Quotes
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one of 164 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,…
— Diane Ackerman
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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
— Honore de Balzac
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Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female…
— Brandon Boyd
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We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like…
— William Shakespeare
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Conformity is the ape of harmony.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish…
— Carl Linnaeus
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It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the…
— David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
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Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he…
— William Ralph Inge
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A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and…
— Adolf Hitler
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