Quotes from Paul Watson

Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.'

A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate.

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

There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation.

Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders.

I was doing a talk show in Vancouver, and somebody called in a bomb threat to protest my violence, which I thought was pretty strange. We had to evacuate.

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

Protesting is fundamentally submissive.

Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish.

I don't care if I put people off.

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

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.

Documentaries make a difference.

Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.

It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?" My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.

Be a voice for the future and a voice for the planet.

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

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

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.

What sensitive, sane soul can stand in the presence of such insanity and do nothing? Yet to expose the slaughter of seals in Canada is to deliver oneself into the hands of a bureaucratic inquisition. To witness the killing of a seal is a crime. To film or photograph the slaughter is a felony. To oppose the massacre is to subject oneself to jail time, beatings, heavy fines, and officially sanctioned harassment. - Paul Watson

the modern media is the mass media and they understand only four things. Every story carried by the modern media involves one of these four things: sex, scandal, violence and celebrity culture. If a story does not include one of those four elements, it isn't a story and it becomes difficult if not impossible to get the message out. So, you have to tie your story to one of the four elements to ensure that it is picked up and that you get your message out. (p. 125)

The war against the Canadian seal hunt is more than a protest. It is a crusade to bring harmony between the natural world and humanity. All of us who oppose it are dedicated to the protection of life and the abolition of cruelty.

We have already exterminated 90% of the fish. The fish population is 90% smaller than it was before we began to wage war on the oceans. (p. 209)