Quote collection
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"There is a lack of economic and political motivation to defend life in the oceans. The profit is made by companies exploiting the oceans and they have the money to buy the politicians who make the laws."
"I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds."
"They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years."
"I’ve got no criminal record."
"The Ady Gil, a Sea Shepherd vessel, it's a fast patrol boat, was sitting still in the water when the Shonan Maru #2 came by, deliberately turned into it, rammed it, cut it in half, sunk it and destroyed it."
"We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with."
"The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understood that the fish had to be given a chance to recover."
"This isn't a hunt that's going to kill just four or five gray whales. The repercussions of this will have an effect on tens of thousands of whales that will be killed by the Japanese and Norwegians."
"Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot."
"It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth and a myth-generating machine."
"Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite."
"Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever."
"Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined."
"I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians."
"We go after unlawful activities."