Quotes from Paul Watson

We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years.

My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me.

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

There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.

Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.

Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged.

I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.

Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.

People are beginning to realize that we need to live in accordance with the law of ecology, the law of finite resources, and if we don't, we're going to go extinct.

Domestic house cats kill more fish than all the world's seals put together.

Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth.

There are very few fishermen left today.

I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and all I see WikiLeaks doing is exposing the truth.

Ecoterrorism is terrorism against the environment.

Sea Shepherd is to terrorism what Groucho was to Marxism.

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.

I'm not really a fugitive.

I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn't get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one.

The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers.

Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.

I feel that people should have a license to have children, that they have proper education how to raise children. And that nobody should be allowed to be a parent unless they can prove that they are competent enough to be a parent.

I used to swim with these beavers in a beaver pond when I was 10. I went back when I was 11 and found there were no more beavers. I found that trappers had taken them all, so I became quite angry, and that winter I began to walk the trap lines and free animals from the traps and destroy the traps.

If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean.

I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness.