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Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation. -- Prince Philip
I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around. -- James Beard
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. -- Abbie Hoffman
There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount. -- Graham Chapman
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
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
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
Slander is worse than cannibalism. -- Saint John Chrysostom
I was talking cannibalism, not romance. -- Patricia Briggs
A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. -- Georges Bataille
My dream is that people will come to view eating an animal as cannibalism. -- Henry Spira
Legalizing abortion to get government out of the bedroom is like legalizing cannibalism to get government out of the kitchen. -- Joseph Sobran
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
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
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
[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
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said. -- George Orwell
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
...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
In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Cannibalism to a certain moderate extent is practised among several of the primitive tribes in the Pacific, but it is upon the bodies of slain enemies alone; and horrible and fearful as the custom is, immeasurably as it is to be abhorred and condemned, still I assert that those who indulge in it are in other respects humane and virtuous. -- Herman Melville
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
Slander is worse than cannibalism -- Saint John Chrysostom
Slander is worse than cannibalism. -- Saint John Chrysostom
I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around -- James Beard
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars -- Abbie Hoffman
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
The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their teeth -- Margaret Mead
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
One day it's going to dawn on the human race that war is as barbaric a means of resolving conflict as cannibalism is as a means of coping with diet deficiencies -- Bruce Kent
It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboarding. And that to me doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't aspects of those subjects that are funny, it just means that people are too uptight. -- Rob McElhenney
Anything short of cannibalism is just beating around the bush. -- J. F. Lawton
Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism. -- Joseph Stalin
I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school. -- Orson Scott Card
Chris Matthews is so nuts that if he ate a snickers bar it would be cannibalism. -- Greg Gutfeld
If I had seen pictures of people eating each other on the wall, I would've told him I was into cannibalism. -- Chelsea Handler
Specifically, Iâ??d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since itâ??s less wasteful. -- Bill Watterson
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
As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, " I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school. -- Orson Scott Card
The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another. -- Ayn Rand
The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book. -- Ben Hecht
I have come to the conclusion that imperialism and exploitation are forms of cannibalism and, in fact, are precisely those forms of cannibalism which are most diabolical or evil. -- Jack D Forbes
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
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

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