"We're just a conceited naked ape, but in……" — 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 god, thinking we can decide what will live and what will die, what will be saved and what will be destroyed, but honestly we're just a bunch of primates out of control."
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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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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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The Ady Gil, a Sea Shepherd vessel, it's a fast patrol boat, was sitting still in the water when the…
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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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