Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
P.O. Box 2616, Friday Harbor, WA 98250Phone 310-456-1141 | Fax 310-456-2488 | Email seashepherd@seashepherd.org
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“If you do not intend to kill anybody, if you make every effort to not kill and injure anybody, that’s all you really can do. You can’t stop somebody from walking into a situation, and we really can’t be too overly preoccupied with this.” — Sea Shepherd President Paul Watson on being “pre-occupied” with killing someone, at the Animal Rights 2002 convention
“There are 30-million plus species on this planet. They’re all earthlings. They’re all equal. Some are more “equal” than others, I admit: earthworms are far more valuable than people.” — “Animal Rights 2002” convention
“Animal Liberation Front tactics are going to continue. There’s not a damned thing you can do about it, you’re not going to stop it. So you might as well incorporate it into the movement.” — “Animal Rights 2002” convention
“There’s nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write the history.” — “Animal Rights 2002” convention
“You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use.” — Jerry Vlasak on "Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!"" (Showtime cable network)
“I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.” — Jerry Vlasak on "Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!"" (Showtime cable network)
“I don’t have any doubt in my mind that there will come a time when we will see violence against animal rights abusers.” — Jerry Vlasak on "Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!"" (Showtime cable network)
“If someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the use of violence, then it is certainly a morally justifiable solution.” — Jerry Vlasak on "Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!"" (Showtime cable network)
“Watson’s crusade is not about the protection of endangered species. It is about one obsessive man with a cause.” — Barbara Sumner Burstyn, The New Zealand Herald, September 2, 2002
“I’ve known the guy (Watson) for 15 years, and he’s absolutely insane, out of his mind.” — Jim Boland, Greenpeace co-founder
“We should never feel like we’re going too far in breaking the law, because whatever laws you break to liberate animals or to protect the environment are very insignificant compared to the laws that are broken by that parliament of whores in Washington. They are the biggest lawbreakers, the biggest destroyers, the biggest mass-murderers on this planet right now.” — Paul Watson, at the Animal Rights 2002 convention
“If you don’t know an answer, a fact, a statistic, then ... make it up on the spot.” — Paul Watson, in Earthforce: An Earth Warrior’s Guide to Strategy
“The fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it’s for what we believe in.” — Paul Watson, at the Animal Rights 2002 convention
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