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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• ...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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• [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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• 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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• 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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• 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 typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him, he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Astrology, Games

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.261, Vintage

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• Anything short of cannibalism is just beating around the bush.

  J. F. Lawton

  "Fictional character: Dr. Kurtz". "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• I'm against eating a human being alive - I don't do it. Somebody might make cannibalism jokes and laugh it off like it's nothing. I don't agree with that. I want to proclaim a rejection of cannibalism.

  John Maus

  Laughing, Rejection, Alive

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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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• My own doctrine of organization is that any body of people coming together for a purpose (whatever it may be) should consist of persons wholly wedded to said purpose and should consist of nobody else. If the purpose be Cannibalism (preference for Ham a la Capitalism) then nobody but a Cannibal should be admitted. There should be plenty of discussion and disagreement as to how and the means but none whatever as to ends.

  Benton MacKaye

  Mean, Organization, People

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• I was sitting one day and thinking about cannibalism, because that's what guys like me do... and I thought, suppose a guy was washed up on a rocky island, how much of himself could he eat?

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Islands, Guy

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• I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.

  Golda Meir

  Children, War, School

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• The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought... Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility.

  Winston Churchill

  Christian, War, Struggle

  "The World Crisis, Volume I: 1911-1914". Book by Winston Churchill, 1923.

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• But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to death in one year by the methods they approve, why do they still fraternize with the murderers and support the measures? Because they have been told that the lingering death of the three millions might ultimately benefit a greater number. The argument applies equally well to cannibalism.

  Isabel Paterson

  Numbers, Years, People

  Isabel Paterson (2017). “God of the Machine”, p.323, Routledge

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