#cannibal

Imperialism creates the illusion of wealth as far as the masses are concerned. It usually serves to hide the fact that the ruling classes are gobbling up the natural resources of the home territory in an improvident manner and are otherwise utilizing the national wealth largely for their own purposes. Eventually the general public is called upon to pay for all of this, frequently after the military machine can no longer maintain external aggression. ↗

— Jack D. Forbes

#columbus #disease #wétiko #nature

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#humour #sci-fi #self-cannibalism #sci-fi

The bad news is the butcher’s dead. The good news is there’ll be no need for a funeral, and I’ve got enough meat to last for weeks.   ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#cannibalism #death #food #funeral #humor

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#cannibalism #compulsory #eat #forced #i

Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal! ↗

— Richard E. Grant

#after #anthony #anthony hopkins #break #cannibal

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#baby #book #cannibal #genuine #lovingly

Slander is worse than cannibalism. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#slander #than #worse

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. ↗

— Stanislaw Lem

#cannibals #prefer #spines #those #who

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. ↗