Quotes About Cannibalism

The availability of domesticated animal species played an important role in the prohibition of cannibalism and the development of religions of love and mercy in the states and empires of the Old World. Christianity, it may yet turn out, was more the gift of the lamb in the manger than the child who was born in it.

Strictly speaking, human flesh itself contains the highest-qual­ ity protein that one can eat.

When first contacted by Europeans, the peoples of New Guinea, northern Australia, and most of the islands of Melanesia such as the Solomon Islands, the New He­ brides, and New Caledonia practiced some degree of warfare cannibalism.

Aztecs had not only failed to repress the eating of enemy dead, they were practicing a state-sponsored form of human sacrifice and cannibalism on a scale never rivaled before or since.

Stalin's policies had driven millions more to starvation and even cannibalism.

Probably cut off his balls and force him to eat them." I stated as a mere fact.

Suppose a cannibal eats a Christian, and suppose the cannibal is then himself converted. The Christian's body has become part of the cannibal's body; who will have which bits at the resurrection?

Could a creature who had to look upon ordinary people literally as food and shelter ever understand how strongly those people valued life?

It's a good thing your people don't eat meat. If you did, the way you talk about us, our flavors and your hunger and your need to taste us, I think you would eat us instead of fiddling with our genes." And after a moment of silence, "That might even be better. It would be something we could understand and fight against.

I pounded my forehead against Warren's back. "Tell me Ben's not flirting with me." "Hey," said Ben sounding hurt. "I was talking cannibalism, not romance.

Poor critter, Doc thought. Marooned here like Robinson Crusoe. And we're the cannibal savages.

We live in an age that cannibalises its past because it has lost faith in its future.

Like a fractal, wetiko operates on multiple dimensions simultaneously--intra-personally (within individuals), inter-personally (among ourselves), collectively (as a species), as well as trans-personally (in a realm beyond our personal selves). Those afflicted with wetiko consume, like a cannibal, the life force of others--human and nonhuman--for private purposes or profit, and do so without giving back something from their own lives.

One by one, and two by two,He tossed them human hearts to chew.

You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.

refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.

the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.

Then the king asked her, “What is the matter?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ëGive up your son, that we may eat him, and tomorrow we will eat my son.í

So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, ëGive up your son, that we may eat him.í But she had hidden her son.”

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one anotherís flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.í

The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.í