“And if I consume another mortal’s flesh, will I like god before me, shit a million stars upon the naked, wretched sky?”— A.P. Sweet
“I’m not the one going for a biology degree. I’m just a philosophy major who eats people.”— Scott Westerfeld
“Moral philosophers say things like, ‘What is actually wrong with cannibalism?’ There are two ways of responding to that: one is to shrink back in horror and say, ‘Cannibalism! Cannibalism! We can’t talk about cannibalism!’ The other is to say, ‘Well, actually, what is wrong with cannibalism?’ Then you work it out and you tease it out and you decide yes, actually, cannibalism is wrong, but for the following reasons. So I’d like to think that my moral values at least partly come from reasoning. Trying to suppress the gut reaction as much as possible. [“Is Richard Dawkins destroying his reputation?”, The Guardian, 9 June 2015]”— Richard Dawkins
“We’re not cannibals,’ he said as if to remind them. ‘Cannibals boil people alive in cauldrons. I prefer to think of ourselves as evolved eaters. As a family, we’re at the forefront of fine dining. Human flesh is an acquired taste, and I’ve worked hard to give you all the chance to appreciate it for yourselves.”— Matt Whyman
“Have you ever wondered how to commit human sacrifice and destroy all the evidence while having a delicious meal all at the same time? It’s called cannibalism and all it means is eating another human being. It’s not that hard.”— Tim Heidecker
“But if you’re gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you’re gonna get eaten . . .”— Nick Cave
“Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.”— Thomas Jefferson
“He roused from a joyous dream of feasting, of drinking blood and sucking warm marrow from the bone. His sons and daughters swarmed like ants upon the surface of the Earth, ripe in their terror, delectable in their anguish. He swept them into his mouth and their insides ran in black streams between his lips and matted his beard. This sweet dream rapidly slipped away as he stretched and assessed his surroundings. He shambled forth from the great cavern in the mountain that had been his home for so long.”— Laird Barron
“I don’t care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won’t get you out of this school.”— Orson Scott Card