231 Quotes by Paul Watson

Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet’s sharks combined.

Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans will die. And if the oceans die, then civilization collapses and we all die.

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive – money – to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.

That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it’s for what we believe in .

Everybody is a hypocrite. You can’t live on this planet without being a hypocrite.

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.

There’s nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history.

It’s funny but when young people say to me “what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?” My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.

What we need now is heroes – millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.