Paul Watson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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 you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.”
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“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 not believe in miners, I believe in the rocks beneath my feet. I do not believe in pie in the sky spirituality, I believe in rainbows, rivers, mountains, and moss. I do not believe in environmentalists, I believe in the environment. I am a proud traitor to my species in alliance with my mother the Earth in opposition to those who would destroy her, those parasites who believe the Earth is here to serve human interests.”
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“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 are willing to die for.”
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“A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.”
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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 animals or to protect the environment are very insignificant compared to the laws that are broken by that parliament of ***** in Washington. They are the biggest lawbreakers, the biggest destroyers, the biggest mass-murderers on this planet right now.”
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“Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.”
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“It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.”
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“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 the developed world thinks nothing of hauling in magnificent wild creatures like swordfish, tuna, halibut, shark, and salmon for our meals. The fact is that the global slaughter of marine wildlife is simply the largest massacre of wildlife on the planet.”
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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 we believe in .”
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“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 very much since the days our forebears lived in caves and saught to prove their superiority by adorning themselves with teeth and claws”
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“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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“I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. These beings have spoken to me, touched me, and I have been rewarded by friendship with many members of different species. If the whales survive and flourish, if the seals continue to live and give birth, and if I can contribute to ensuring their future prosperity, I will be forever happy.”
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“Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth.”
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“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 a myth and a myth-generating machine.”
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“I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.”
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“The fact is I have never been convicted of a crime.”
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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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“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 tribalism and become Earthlings. And as Earthlings, we need to recognize that all the other species that live on this planet are also fellow citizens and also Earthlings. This is a planet of incredible diversity of life-forms; it is not a planet of one species as many of us believe.”
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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 Shonan Maru #2 came by, deliberately turned into it, rammed it, cut it in half, sunk it and destroyed it.”
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“They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.”
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“WE CAN NOT LIVE ON THIS PLANET WITH DEAD OCEANS. IF OUR OCEANS DIE, WE DIE.”
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“We need to stop burning fossil fuels and utilize only wind, water, and solar power with all generation of power coming from individual or small community units like windmills, waterwheels, and solar panels. Sea transportation should be by sail...Air transportation should be by solar powered blimps when air transportation is necessary.”
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“We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.”
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“What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.”
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“Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.”
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“Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.”
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“I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.”
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