Cannibals Quote by H. L. Mencken

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.

— H. L. Mencken

“If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country he [Harry Truman] would have promised to provide them with free missionaries,…

— H.L. Mencken

If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened…

— H. L. Mencken

We cannibals must help these Christians.

— Herman Melville

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

— Oscar Wilde

So many missionaries, intent on doing something, forget that His main work is to make something of them.

— Jim Elliot

“Even cannibals don't like to be called cannibals.”

— John Lutz

“...the idea of cannibalism had become a handy symbol for unacceptable behavior practiced by "Others"--a broad and malleable category of evildoers that included enemies,…

— Bill Schutt

Anything short of cannibalism is just beating around the bush.

— J. F. Lawton

“From such a society a committee might be appointed, whose business it should be to procure all the information they could upon the subject,…

— William Carey

“The idea of a vegetarian butcher is absurd; but there is something more absurd than this: The idea of an honest politician!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Can the cannibal speak in the name of those he ate?

— Bill Vaughan