Cannibalism Quote by Samuel Butler

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

— Samuel Butler

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

Morality is like a field of flowers beneath which the corpses are piled in a thousand layers. It is an evolved mechanism whereby the…

— Roger Scruton

For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one's genital organs; or a set of injunctions against lying, stealing,…

— Marilyn French

“...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

Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is it the…

— Steven Pinker

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

— Lincoln Steffens

“Moral’ means one is free to enjoy only the things that belong to him and those he receives naturally and spontaneously. That is the…

— Dada Bhagwan

Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor…

— Gustave Flaubert

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

— Elbert Hubbard

If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense…

— Anonymous

The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.

— Friedrich Nietzsche