Paul Watson

“As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it.”

“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.”

“No species is more important than others.”

“That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them.”

“Protesting is fundamentally submissive.”

“Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal.”

“There are very few fishermen left today.”

“People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and make things happen.”

“I don't care if I put people off.”

“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 would just say that nobody could do what I do unless you had a big ego. It's the only way you can really put it. You have to be arrogant enough to challenge the arrogance of the human race.”

“Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our annual opposition of their illegal whaling activities.”

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