Cannibalism Quote by Margaret Mead

Cannibalism to a certain moderate extent is practised among several of the primitive tribes in the Pacific, but it is upon the bodies of…

— Herman Melville

“If some saw the Indians as living in prelapsarian innocence, there were others who judged them to be savage beasts, devils in the form…

— Paul Auster

I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.

— William P. Young

I think the Left doesn't know how to be a tribe in the way the Right does. The Left is very cannibalistic. It eats…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity…

— Michel de Montaigne

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered…

— Jonathan Swift

These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their…

— Henry Hudson

“The Spanish had butchered the Indians with a clean conscience because they were confident that they knew what a normal human being was. Their…

— Alain de Botton

When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were…

— Philipp Meyer

“Most Indians' deliberate, cultivated, amoral innocence about what is happening there, what is being done in their name, becomes hard to bear.”

— Arundhati Roy

“For while those like Señor Coma of Aragon were drawing a parallel between darkness of flesh and commitment to cannibalism—while Columbus and others were…

— David E. Stannard