"I take a biocentric point of view. I……" — Paul Watson
"I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As opposed to the anthropocentric point of view, where everything revolves around humanity."
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112 Quotes by Paul Watson
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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 Anthropocentric Quotes
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...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being…
— J M Coetzee
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Above all, we must awaken to and overcome the great hidden anthropocentric projection that has virtually defined the modern mind:…
— Richard Tarnas
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Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
— Ian McHarg
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Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value,…
— Fritjof Capra
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The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way…
— Story Musgrave
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Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once…
— Zeena Schreck
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Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe…
— Carl Sagan
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Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of…
— Paul Watson
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To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human…
— E. O. Wilson
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Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine…
— Frans de Waal
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In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed…
— Dennis Prager
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