Melville, by his own account, spent four months in the…

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…

— George Orwell

“Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at…

— Tahir Shah

The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too,…

— Robert Anton Wilson

“This is said to civilized men who are to venture into countries where sacred cows are fed, while children are left to starve -…

— Ayn Rand

“Uncorked materialism is new cannibalism.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Imagine fifty thousand men trapped on a desert island, deprived of food and water and sex but somehow kept alive for fifty thousand years.…

— David Wong

You have to take the long view. First, when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai, man has already progressed to the point where a…

— I. F. Stone

“The future promises us all our very own Truman Shows and when every man and woman is a star the spectacle becomes auto- cannibalizing;…

— Dean Cavanagh

“The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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.…

— John Maus

“Everything in this room is eatable. Even I am eatable. But that, my dear children, is cannibalism, and is frowned upon in most societies.”

— Ashley Clegg

“Stories of cannibalism among castaways were so common that British sailors considered the practice of choosing and sacrificing a victim to be an established…

— Laura Hillenbrand

Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the killer and…

— Norman Cousins

But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to death in…

— Isabel Paterson

“The availability of domesticated animal species played an important role in the prohibition of cannibalism and the development of religions of love and mercy…

— Marvin Harris