Paul Watson Quotes

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling.

The Europeans do not respect human rights alone but go further and defend animal rights in the manner of that tart Brigitte Bardot. They even defend vegetation rights like those of trees in public parks. Indeed they equate liberty and permissiveness, notably in sexual matters.

If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.

Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.

Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors.

I'm very involved with PETA - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals - and Greenpeace and a lot of women's shelter and clothing giveaways.

All men are equal before fish.

I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

However, I do firmly believe in maintaining the integrity of the animal.

Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.

I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.

Animals weren't put on this earth to entertain us.

The earth and its resources belong of right to its people.

Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.

In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.

I stopped making films to look after animals.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

I know that Daddy had an important job. He was working to change the world so everyone would love wildlife like he did. He built a hospital to help animals, and he bought lots of land to give animals a safe place to live.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their 'food' face to face.

I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.

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.