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Domestic house cats kill more fish than all the world's seals put together.
If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.
Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.
It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.
Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans.
An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales.
Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese.
The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.
The most powerful weapon in the world, as far as I'm concerned, is the camera.
You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.
Japan is a bully nation that takes what it wants and threatens any who oppose it.
Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.
Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish.
Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.
I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.
I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness.
I can't think of a greater legacy than, "Because you lived, another species survived."
We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly.
I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977.
Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.
There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history.
Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot.
We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.
Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.'
Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.
We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.
The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check.
I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now.
There is no sustainable future for fisheries as long as human populations continue to increase.
What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero.
You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing.
There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation.
I want to stay in the ocean. I'm not going to be able to do that from some holding cell in Japan.
Putting Zodiacs in front of whaling vessels doesn't do it anymore. Done that, been there, seen that.
People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?
I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together.
Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English.
A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.
Follow your dreams and use your natural born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.
Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.
Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling.
They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.
As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it.
Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged.
We live in a media culture and whoever controls and influences and uses media the best has the power for change.
I'm never horrible to anybody. My problem, and you can ask any of my friends, is that I'm too nice to everybody.
Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion.
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.