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Quotes About Cannibalism

Go to the meat-market of a Saturday night and see the crowds of live bipeds staring up at the long rows of dead quadrupeds. Does not that sight take a tooth out of the cannibal's jaw? Cannibals? who is not a cannibal?
~ Herman Melville
Cannibals? who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgment, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate-de-foie-gras.
~ Herman Melville
I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Feegee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Feegee, I say, in the day of judgment, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy paté-de-foie-gras.
~ Herman Melville
If he ever becomes an issue, I could eat him. He looks delicious. Thank you, but that won't be necessary. And that wasn't creepy. Not at all. Caldenia smiled. You will be surprised how difficult it is to get rid of a human body. I'd say he is perhaps a hundred and seventy pounds? That's a lot of flesh to manage. We could freeze it. He'd feed me for at least three months.
~ Ilona Andrews
It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.
~ Idi Amin
They were like a horde of greedy cannibals, salivating to sample the divine flesh. Yet the robed, starving light only burned from their eyes while the fruit filled their mouths.
~ Storm Constantine
On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.
~ Thomas Harris
He told me once that, whenever it was 'feasible,' he preferred to eat the rude. 'Free-range rude,' he called them.
~ Thomas Harris
On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.
~ Thomas Harris
No one was innocent in the sight of God anyway. Now imagine the cannibalism, rape, murder, child sacrifice, and so on. Yet God was patient. He gave a 120-year countdown to the Flood (Genesis 6:313) and even sent a preacher of righteousness (2 Peter 2:514).
~ Ken Ham
My Zombie Ate Your Honor Student
~ Gena Showalter
You can't negotiate with a zombie. They have only one impulse - that's to eat us or our brains.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
~ Abbie Hoffman
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
After seventeen days, one of the crew suggested that they cast lots. As it turned out, the lot fell to the man who had originally made the proposal, and after lots were cast again to see who should execute him, he was killed and eaten.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
El desastre del Essex no es un relato de aventuras. Es una tragedia que además resulta ser una de las historias verdaderas más grandes que jamás se hayan contado.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Yeah! Someone says they freaked out and ate each other—you know, like the Donner party.
~ Neal Shusterman
The consequences were horrific; Ireland was transformed into a post-apocalyptic landscape. Destitute men lined the roads in their rags, sleeping in crude shelters dug into roadside ditches. People ate dogs, rats, and tree bark. Reports of cannibalism were frequent and perhaps accurate. Entire families died in their homes and were eaten by feral pets.
~ Charles C. Mann
To look into the eyes of a cannibal. I turn away at the thought.
~ Carol Birch
Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?" "They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.
~ Cassandra Clare
There's naught to eat in the dark but flesh.
~ George R.R. Martin
Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?
~ Stanislaw Lee
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
Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.
~ Tadeusz Borowski