I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law.

Ships are expendable; the whales are not.

The sealing industry is dying.

We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years.

Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth.

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

Protesting is fundamentally submissive.

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

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

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

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

I don't care if I put people off.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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