65 Cannibalism Quotes to Help You Understand its Historical Context
While they may seem odd or unsettling at first glance, cannibalism quotes actually offer a wealth of insights that can invigorate your perspective on life and love. The concept of cannibalism as a metaphor for love, for instance, challenges us to explore the boundaries of passion, where the intense desire to become one with another transcends into a metaphorical consumption. Meanwhile, quotes related to cannibalism in survival narratives compel us to ponder on the lengths we would go to ensure our existence.
Short Cannibalism Quotes
- Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny? — Steven Wright
- A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. — Georges Bataille
- Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. — Stanislaw Lem
- Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation. — Prince Philip
- But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . . — Nick Cave
- If we can abandon our missionary zeal we have less chance of being eaten by cannibals. — Carl Whitaker
- Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. — Walter Benjamin
- Slander is worse than cannibalism. — John Chrysostom
- Slander is worse than cannibalism. — Saint John Chrysostom
- Courage is walking naked through a cannibal village — Sam Levenson
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Flesh Eating Quotes
Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters. — Sylvester Graham
Flesh eating is unprovoked murder. — Benjamin Franklin
'Eat my flesh,' Jesus says, 'and drink my blood.' The Lord supplies us with these intimate nutrients, he delivers over his flesh and pours out his blood, and nothing is lacking for the growth of his children — Clement of Alexandria
Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals. — Philip Kapleau
You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat. — Ha Jin
When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores. — William C. Roberts
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own. — Jonathan Safran Foer
There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be offered, with equal strength, in favour of cannibalism. — Herbert M. Shelton
Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood. — Ellen G. White
"It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh," said the Scarecrow thoughtfully, "for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly." — L. Frank Baum
People Writing About Cannibalism
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Steven Wright |
543 | 9203 |
 Georges Bataille |
92 | 571 |
 Stanislaw Lem |
93 | 280 |
 Prince Philip |
121 | 2255 |
 Nick Cave |
128 | 605 |
 Walter Benjamin |
143 | 1292 |
More 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
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. — Abbie Hoffman
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. — H. L. Mencken
If I die here in Glasgow, I shall be eaten by worms; If I can but live and die serving the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by cannibals or by worms; for in the Great Day my resurrection body will arise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer. — John Gibson Paton
Men become cannibals of their own hearts; remorse, regret, and restless impatience usurp the place of more wholesome feeling: every thing seems better than that which is. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Come, my pretender, my fritter, my bubbler, my chicken biddy! Oh succulent one, it is but one turn in the road and I would be a cannibal! — Anne Sexton
I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around. — James Beard
You have to take the long view. First, when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai, man has already progressed to the point where a commandment against cannibalism was no longer necessary. And, second, it's like pissing on a boulder. For the first few thousand years, you don't see any effect. But after that, you start to see a definite impact. — I. F. Stone
You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes. — Astrid Lindgren
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
My dream is that people will come to view eating an animal as cannibalism. — Henry Spira
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
I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo. — Wyndham Lewis
...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
Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him. — Emile M. Cioran
It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone. — Henry David Thoreau
Legalizing abortion to get government out of the bedroom is like legalizing cannibalism to get government out of the kitchen. — Joseph Sobran
1,000 cows in the U.S. are alive at night and dead in the morning. These cows on the ground are ground into feed, making their fellows not only carnivores but cannibals. Europe after Mad Cows' Disease has banned this practice. The U.S has not yet. — Howard Lyman
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork? — Stanislaw Lec
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
Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal! — Richard E. Grant
Chris Matthews is so nuts that if he ate a snickers bar it would be cannibalism. — Greg Gutfeld
People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone. — Doris Lessing
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
We must redefine the word food, or we must redefine the word cannibal. — Philip Wollen
...the pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models. — Edward Weston
Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you? — Nicholas Sparks
Little kids' minds are very, very strong. They bend. There's a lot of tensile strength and they don't break. We start our kids off on things like "Hansel and Gretel," which features child abandonment, kidnapping, attempted murder, forcible detention, cannibalism, and finally murder by cremation. And the kids love it. — Stephen King
In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.' — Albert Schweitzer
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary. — Oscar Wilde
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Love is when you suddenly wake up as a cannibal, and not just any old cannibal, or else wake up destined for devourment. — Helene Cixous
He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals — Henry Miller
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals. — Finley Peter Dunne
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