Paul Watson Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

• 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.

  Paul Watson

  Fighting, Warrior, Odds

  "Paul Watson: Sea Shepherd's stern 'warrior' defies Japanese whalers" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2010.

  14 Copy quote

• That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in .

  Paul Watson

  Believe, Facts, Culture

  25 Copy quote

• It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew.

  Paul Watson

  Passion, Sea, Volunteer

  "The Cold War Over the Hottest of Blood" by Captain Paul Watson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.

  25 Copy quote

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

  Paul Watson

  Media, Culture, Use

  11 Copy quote

• Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If we dont find answers to these problems, were gonna be victims of this extinction event that were at fault for.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Years, Events

  11 Copy quote

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

  Paul Watson

  Tragedy, Incentives, Ecology

  14 Copy quote

• I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries of the laws of ecology.

  Paul Watson

  Law, Insanity, Humanity

  10 Copy quote

• I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.

  Paul Watson

  Men, Ideas, Apes

  9 Copy quote

• We are killing our host the planet Earth.... I was once severely criticized for describing human beings as being the 'AIDS of the Earth.' I make no apologies for that statement.... We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.

  Paul Watson

  Apology, Population, Needs

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  Animal, Wimps, Purpose

  14 Copy quote

• All consumption should be local. No food products need to be transported over hundreds of miles to market. All commercial fishing should be abolished. If local communities need to fish the fish should be caught individually by hand. We need to stop flying, stop driving cars, and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.

  Paul Watson

  Marine, Hands, Fishing

  8 Copy quote

• I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Whales, Today

  18 Copy quote

• My position is this. If we can't protect sanctuaries, if we can't save the whales, the sharks, the fish, our oceans will die.

  Paul Watson

  Ocean, Sharks, Whales

  14 Copy quote

• 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

  People, Musician, Groups

  11 Copy quote

• This is the contradiction we have in the media. We love vigilantes: Batman, Tarzan, Green Arrow - the comic books and the TV shows are filled with vigilantes. We love to promote it. Jesus Christ was a vigilante. We admire these people, but we don't want to be associated with them.

  Paul Watson

  Jesus, Book, Media

  15 Copy quote

• We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline? Everybody would look at you like youre completely out of your mind.

  Paul Watson

  Average, Years, Cities

  60 Copy quote

• The real strength of the environmental movement is the tens of thousands, even millions of individuals around the world who are really making a difference and they are doing it out of passion.

  Paul Watson

  Real, Passion, Differences

  7 Copy quote

• The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.

  Paul Watson

  Sharks, Years, Sea

  "Sea Shepherd: How We Sank the Japanese Whaling Fleet". Interview with Deborah Bassett, www.theecologist.org. April 21, 2011.

  70 Copy quote

• 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

  Cat, Animal, Together

  7 Copy quote

• Back in 1980, whale watching surpassed whaling as an industry. Now it's worth about four times as much. Whale watching provides far, far more jobs to people than whaling ever did. Whale watching has become an ally in the fight to end whaling.

  Paul Watson

  Jobs, Fighting, Animal

  6 Copy quote

• They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.

  Paul Watson

  Years, Peers, Paper

  4 Copy quote

• Social change comes through people.

  Paul Watson

  People, Social, Social Change

  10 Copy quote

• I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.

  Paul Watson

  Kids, Bird, Going Out

  4 Copy quote

• Who should have children? Those who are responsible and completely dedicated to the responsibility which is actually a very small percentage of humans. Being a parent should be a career. Whereas some people are engineers, musicians, or lawyers, others with the desire and the skills can be fathers and mothers. Schools can be eliminated if the professional parent is also the educator of the child.

  Paul Watson

  Mother, Children, Father

  6 Copy quote

• I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.

  Paul Watson

  Disappointment, Thinking, Promise

  5 Copy quote

Page 2 of 3

First

← Prev

1

2

3

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin