Paul Watson Quotes About Animal Rights

Quotes about: Animal Rights

• If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.

  Paul Watson

  War, Animal, Views

• As for myself, I do not believe in loggers, I believe in trees. I do not believe in fishermen, I believe in fish. I do not believe in miners, I believe in the rocks beneath my feet. I do not believe in pie in the sky spirituality, I believe in rainbows, rivers, mountains, and moss. I do not believe in environmentalists, I believe in the environment. I am a proud traitor to my species in alliance with my mother the Earth in opposition to those who would destroy her, those parasites who believe the Earth is here to serve human interests.

  Paul Watson

  Mother, Believe, Sky

• Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Environment, Harmony

  "Captain Paul Watson introduced by Persia White at Worldfest". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. June 30, 2006.

• Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Ice, Hunters

• Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Puffins, Chickens

• We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Thinking, Whales

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

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Pigs, Sharks

• North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks.

  Paul Watson

  Cat, Animal, Together

• They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit... they're a bunch of wimps.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Wimps, Purpose

• Back in 1980, whale watching surpassed whaling as an industry. Now it's worth about four times as much. Whale watching provides far, far more jobs to people than whaling ever did. Whale watching has become an ally in the fight to end whaling.

  Paul Watson

  Jobs, Fighting, Animal

• This isn't a hunt that's going to kill just four or five gray whales. The repercussions of this will have an effect on tens of thousands of whales that will be killed by the Japanese and Norwegians.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Whales, Four

• I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Whales, Today

• Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Hunting, Years

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