Cannibalism Quotes

• Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Death, Baby, Buddhist

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• I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Peace, War, Military

  Quoted in James Charlton, The Military Quotation Book (1990)

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• The people of the future will say, 'meat-eaters!' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

  Dennis Weaver

  Vegetarianism, People, Meat

  "The vegetarians". Book by Rynn Berry, p. 64, 1979.

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• I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.

  James Beard

  Believe, Food, Adversity

  James Beard (2015). “Delights and Prejudices”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.

  Jesse Helms

  Children, School, Learning

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• There is no cannibalism in the British Navy, absolutely none. And when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than I personally admit.

  Graham Chapman

  Mean, British Navy, Certain

  "Character: Sir John Cunningham". "Monty Python's Flying Circus", TV Series (1969–1974), "The War Against Pornography", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• Slander is worse than cannibalism.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Criticism, Slander

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• Interviewer: Have you ever considered writing nonfiction? Mary Doria Russell: Oh, honey, I did! Let's see...There was "A Reconsideration of the Evidence for Cannibalism at the Krapina Neandertal Site." That was a big hit. And who could ever forget "Cutmarks on the Engis II Calvarium"? Then there was "Browridge Development as a Function of Bending Stress in the Supraorbital Region." I got tons of reprint requests for that one. Trust me fiction is better.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Stress, Writing, Honey

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• A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.

  Georges Bataille

  Kissing

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• [Referring to FDR] If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he needs so sorely, he would begin fattening a missionary in the White House yard come Wednesday.

  H. L. Mencken

  White, House, Yards

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• ...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.

  Karl Marx

  Communication, Agony, Way

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.298, Oxford University Press, USA

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• For starters, let's dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg - sorry - for a good book on the subject, or similar tasteless - sorry, again - attempts to make the subject more palatable - last one.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Sorry, Book, Mean

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• Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the cannibalism canon as well.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Taken, Heart, Sea

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• Everything here is edible; even I'm edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.

  Johnny Depp

  Children, Facts, Dear

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• The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. I'm not contending in a dogmatic way that there is not a God. What I'm contending is that we don't know that there is. I don't like the word "absolute." I don't think there is anything absolute whatever. The moral law, for example, is always changing. At one period in the development of the human race, almost everybody thought cannibalism was a duty.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Thinking, Law

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• Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.

  Prince Philip

  Problem, Realistic, Radical

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• It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger.

  Bruce Kent

  War, Answers, Conflict

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• To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish perceptions, is no more to the point than if I were to slaughter and eat you on the grounds that I am a sophisticated personality able to enjoy Mozart, formal logic and cannibalism, whereas your imaginative world seems confined to True Romances and tinned spaghetti.

  Brigid Brophy

  Animal, Sheep, Personality

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• The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Animal, Men, Practice

  "All Labor Has Dignity".

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• Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.

  Joseph Stalin

  Form, Dangerous, Extremes

  Joseph Stalin (1955). “Works”

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• Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Country, Lynching, Civilization

  "Reconstruction and Africa" (1919)

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• At the moment I put the bread and wine into those dark hands, once stained with the blood of cannibalism, now stretched out to receive and partake the emblems and seals of the Redeemer's love, I had a foretaste of the joy of glory that well nigh broke my heart to pieces. I shall never taste a deeper bliss, till I gaze on the glorified face of Jesus himself.

  John Gibson Paton

  Jesus, Heart, Wine

  John Gibson Paton (1907). “John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides: An autobiography edited by his brother. New and complete illustrated edition: 1824-1907”

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• My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Aquariums, White

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• And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal to remember anything good, the determination to ensure - if anyone falls into the mistake of making it clear they actually like you - that the next time round they change their opinion pronto. Emotional self-cannibalism, in other words, like those tessellated pictures of a person grappling with a mirror image of himself.

  Alexander Masters

  Determination, Mistake, Fall

  Alexander Masters (2006). “Stuart: A Life Backwards”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Specifically, I’d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it’s less wasteful.

  Bill Watterson

  Debate, Murder, Leniency

  "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1994.

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