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Cannibal Quotes

People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

There is no cannibalism in the British Navy, absolutely none. And when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than I personally admit.

"Character: Sir John Cunningham". "Monty Python's Flying Circus", TV Series (1969–1974), "The War Against Pornography", www.imdb.com. 1972.

I was talking cannibalism, not romance.

Patricia Briggs (2007). “Blood Bound”, p.60, Penguin

Anything short of cannibalism is just beating around the bush.

"Fictional character: Dr. Kurtz". "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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 (2017). “The Complete Novels of Herman Melville: Sea Tales, Maritime Adventures & Philosophical Novels: Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket, Pierre, Israel Potter, The Confidence-Man & Billy Budd, Sailor”, p.175, e-artnow

We cannibals must help these Christians.

Herman Melville, D. H. Lawrence (2013). “Moby-Dick (Unabridged) + D. H. Lawrence's critique of Moby-Dick”, p.48, e-artnow

For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.

Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.19, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'

Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.193, Northwestern University Press