Best Paul Watson Quotes & Sayings

Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat. — Paul Watson

Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot. — Paul Watson

Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians. — Paul Watson

Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world. — Paul Watson

A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle. — Paul Watson

I'm never horrible to anybody. My problem, and you can ask any of my friends, is that I'm too nice to everybody. — Paul Watson

Be a voice for the future and a voice for the planet. — Paul Watson

In Africa, the rangers shoot poachers. — Paul Watson

People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I? — Paul Watson

We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly. — Paul Watson

Protesting is fundamentally submissive. — Paul Watson

You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life. — Paul Watson

They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit ... they're a bunch of wimps. — Paul Watson

Putting Zodiacs in front of whaling vessels doesn't do it anymore. Done that, been there, seen that. — Paul Watson

Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English. — Paul Watson

I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades. — Paul Watson

We fired pie filling. That was the Faroes. When they tried to board us, we hit them with forty-five gallon shots of custard and banana creme. — Paul Watson

Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence. — Paul Watson

We live in a media culture and whoever controls and influences and uses media the best has the power for change. — Paul Watson

I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law. — Paul Watson

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. — Paul Watson

I'm not really a fugitive. — Paul Watson

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it. — Paul Watson

Being lampooned on 'South Park' is hardly something to complain about. They brought the issue of the dolphin and whale slaughter by the Japanese to a very large audience. I could not really care less how I was portrayed. — Paul Watson

People feel good about giving money to Greenpeace. — Paul Watson

Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues. — Paul Watson

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 stocks. — Paul Watson

All confrontation is based on deception. — Paul Watson

Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined. — Paul Watson

We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles. — Paul Watson

My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85. — Paul Watson

I can't think of a greater legacy than, "Because you lived, another species survived." — Paul Watson

There it was: a full confession. Sherlock Holmes had done it again, and as I marveled at my devastating powers of deduction, I wished there had been two of me so I could have patted myself on the back. I know it sounds arrogant, but how often does one achieve a mental triumph of that magnitude? After listening to her speak just two words, I had nailed the whole bloody thing. If Watson had been there, he would have been shaking his head and muttering under his breath. — Paul Auster

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 whores in Washington. They are the biggest lawbreakers, the biggest destroyers, the biggest mass-murderers on this planet right now. — Paul Watson