“Later when I saw them hauling away the whale away I said "why are we killing these whales? Why are the Soviets killing those whales?" They weren't eating the sperm whale meat; they were making spermicidal oil, which is used for.. as a lubrication oil, for heavy, heat-resistant machinery. And one of the things that they were using spermicidal oil in was the production and manufacture of inter-contenetal ballistic missiles. I said here we are destroying this incredibly intelligent, socially complex, gentle creature for the purpose of making a weapon meant for the mass extermination of human beings. That's when it struck me: we were insane. Our entire species has to be insane.”