“I am unconcerned if people do not approve of this approach, but my position is: find a whale that disapproves of our actions and we might reconsider. We didn’t ram and sink those whaling ships for people. We did so for the whales. They are our clients.”
— Q&A: Why Captain Paul Watson sinks whaling ships. December, 26 2025.
“All of our targets were criminals, they were all operating in violation of international whaling laws.”
— Captain Paul Watson introduced by Persia White at Worldfest on video
“Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.”
— Worldfest video
“We cannot allow activism to be stifled because of all the paranoia going around.”
— Worldfest video
“In a way, the event could also be called the "Holocenic hominid collective suicide event."”
— The Beginning of the End for Life as We Know it on Planet Earth? There is a Biocentric Solution. Commentary by Paul Watson, Founder and President of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
“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 anyone. Yet environmentalists and animal rights activists have been murdered, and the media is reluctant to portray the deaths as terrorism.”
— "ELF and ALF - Terrorism Is as Terrorism Does", taken from Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals (2004), p. 283

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