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

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

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I'm not pessimistic about anything.

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

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

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No species is more important than others.

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

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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.

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Domestic house cats kill more fish than all the world's seals put together.

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The sealing industry is dying.

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The oceans are the last free place on the planet.

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Social change comes through people.

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

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Protesting is fundamentally submissive.

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I wouldn't think I was successful if I didn't have just as many people hate me as support me.

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

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

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

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We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If we don't find answers to these problems, we're gonna be victims of this extinction event that we're at fault for.

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I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me.

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NATO isn't going to be concerned about fishing.

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

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There are very few fishermen left today.

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An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales.

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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.

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

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People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?

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Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.

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

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We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, 'You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline?' Everybody would look at you like you're completely out of your mind.

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It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.

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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.

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My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me.

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To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme.

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We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly.

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People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and make things happen.

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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.

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