The Brer Rabbit ploy has been quite effective for me. When a country is talking about prosecuting me, I demand to be charged and put on trial and offer to pay my own airfare. They know that I'm going to bring a lot of international media with me and put their whaling programme on trial, and they decide it's better to keep quiet and do nothing.

I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and all I see WikiLeaks doing is exposing the truth.

My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85.

All confrontation is based on deception.

Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling.

I was doing a talk show in Vancouver, and somebody called in a bomb threat to protest my violence, which I thought was pretty strange. We had to evacuate.

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 understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

I'm not really a fugitive.

People are beginning to realize that we need to live in accordance with the law of ecology, the law of finite resources, and if we don't, we're going to go extinct.

The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check.

Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking?

Killing a baby seal is about the easiest thing you can do if you're inclined to be sadistic; you certainly can't say there's any sport in it - the animal is totally defenceless.

Social change comes through people.

I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me.

I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977.

I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now.

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

I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing I am certain of is that I and my passionate crew of international volunteers will never quit defending life in the seas from poachers, no matter what consequences we must endure to do so.

I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.

Documentaries make a difference.

Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders.

Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.

Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.

I feel that people should have a license to have children, that they have proper education how to raise children. And that nobody should be allowed to be a parent unless they can prove that they are competent enough to be a parent.

The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.

Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English.

My clients are the whales and the seals.

People feel good about giving money to Greenpeace.

The seal hunt has made me ashamed to be a Canadian.

I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.'

I'm thankful to have time to write.

You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.

Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.

In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero.

Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence.

There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.

I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.

There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation.

Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the protection of life and habitats in the sea. He was a legendary mariner, diver, oceanographer, and conservationist. The world is a better place because of him.

We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.

Greenpeace has a fast ship that could stop the whalers cold.

Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy.

Being lampooned on 'South Park' is hardly something to complain about. They brought the issue of the dolphin and whale slaughter by the Japanese to a very large audience. I could not really care less how I was portrayed.

I don't care if I put people off.

I'm never horrible to anybody. My problem, and you can ask any of my friends, is that I'm too nice to everybody.

You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life.

Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese.

Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.

Protesting is fundamentally submissive.

There's no rest when you're on planetary duty.