Paul Watson Quotes

There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.

Violence is a commodity in the U. S. and the culture of violence is toxic.

Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?

Feeling sympathy and searching for explanations isn't the same as believing that the violence is justified.

The fictioneer labors under the constraint of plausibility; his inventions must stay within the capacity of the audience to accept and believe. God, of course, working with facts, faces no limitation.

I don't believe a religion affords any protection if they are connected to any kind of terror.

It's hard to see blessings in a violent culture

You don't believe that the Earth is round only if you're an astronaut. You don't believe Napoleon existed only if you're a historian. You believe these things because they're facts, proved by evidence.

I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it also reflects our psychic reality.

Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?

As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

We [people] need to stop lumping folks together and start living together. Otherwise, we're going to kill each other off because you don't believe what I believe. That's crazy.

Most Americans would say that they disapproved of violence. But what they really mean is that they believe it should be the monopoly of the state.

Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.

The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.

What's the main thing that makes magic magic? The fact that no one believes that it's possible.

I did not believe in the war. I thought it was wrong to go into any war. And I got to the war, and saw the Germans, and I changed my mind. I decided we were right going into World War II.

Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge. It is not a speculative thing; for faith believes facts of which it is sure. It is not an unpractical, dreamy thing; for faith trusts, and stakes its destiny upon the truth of revelation.

Sydney: I like Latin. It's fun. Eddie: I can't believe you think we're the strange ones.

Look,' I said, struggling to keep up, 'I just wanna make one thing absolutely clear. I don't believe in guns. I just want peace. Okay?' Alessandro stopped in the middle of the corridor, took out the gun, and wrapped my hand around it before I realized what he was doing. 'Can you feel that? That's a gun. It exists. And there are a lot of people out there who do believe in it. So, excused me for taking care of them so you can have your peace.

Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe is like. Its account of the universe may be true, or it may not, and once the question is really before you, then your natural inquisitiveness must make you want to know the answer. If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.