60 Quotes About Cannibalism

Late December, in Bridgwater, Somerset, Western Province, a middle-aged man named Thomas Wharnton, going home from work shortly after midnight, was set upon by youths. These knifed him, stripped him, spitted him, basted him, carved him, served him—all openly and without shame in one of the squares of the town. A hungry crowd clamoured for hunks and slices, kept back—that the King's Peace might not be broken—by munching and dripping greyboys.

Cannibalism alone unites us. Socially. Economically. Philosophically.

I am not so shocked by savages who roast and eat the bodies of their dead as by those who torture and persecute the living.

But, then it’s possible...I might find my cannibals, after all. Eating the eyes of their prey like gumdrops. There I’ll be, making tape recordings and taking photographs, laughing and snapping wishbones with the natives.

Nobody's going to cook me and eat me, I hope.""People don't quite understand," Michael said, and he may have been serious, "to be eaten pays a compliment to your power.

Black hair hung in his eyes as he turned her chin to taste her mouth. "At least I didn't try to eat her, lost lamb.

..."Papa" referred to Frank five times as: "...the blood son of Dr. Felix Hoenikker."The phrase reeked of cannibalism.

Until relatively recently, and with a very few exceptions, cannibalism would have been regarded as anything but normal. As a result, until the last two decades of the 20th century, few scientists spent time studying a topic thought to have little, if any, biological significance. Basically, the party line was that cannibalism, when it did occur, was either the result of starvation to the stresses related to captive conditions. It was as simple as that. Or so we thought.

A society that is controlled by an elite minority group who use the population as a food source, will never know civility