Paul Watson Quotes

I don't like the human race in general. We are the only species who hunt for sport, who kill due to emotional need.

Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Never wound a snake; kill it.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

Killing more people won't help matters.

I'm not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man.

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.

No man has the right to initiate the use of physical force against others.

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

This non-violent stuff ain’t no good. It’ll get you killed.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

If you worry about hurting your opponent you are probably in the wrong game, because it can happen. I wouldn't wish ill on anyone. I wanted to knock him out, not hurt him badly.

I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.

Some might argue humans are hard-wired to fight. I don't agree: we are conscious beings who have the capacity to make decisions.

What problems?" "Well for starters.. you're an evil duck killer.

We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.