Paul Watson

"We are pirates of compassion hunting down, hunting down and destroying pirates of profit."

"All of our targets were criminals, they were all operating in violation of international whaling laws."

"The activists of the and the are merely emulating the strategies and tactics of every other social and political movement that has ever existed but with one distinct difference – they have not killed …"

"A virus kills its host and that is exactly what we are doing with our planet's life support system. We are killing our host the planet Earth."

"Martin Luther King, Jr. once wrote that you cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object. Back in 1986, the Green Party of Canada tried to toss me out of the Party for sinking whalin…"

"The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a conservative organization. I am a conservative. You can't get more conservative than being a conservationist. Our entire raison de etre is to conserve and pr…"

"I think the problem is that we don't really understand what we are. In essence we're just a conceited, naked ape. But in our minds we're some sort of "divine legend", and we see ourselves as some sort…"

"We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with."