Alex Kozinski

[to members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, on trial for their anti-whaling activities] You don't need a peg-leg or an eye-patch. When you ram ships, hurl glass containers of acid, drag metal-reinforced ropes in the water to damage propellers and rudders, launch smoke bombs and flares with hooks, and point high-powered lasers at other ships, you are - without a doubt - a pirate, no matter how high-minded you believe your purpose to be. Show less «