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The Eaters

~1 min read • Updated Dec 15, 2025

Bitter Quotes from Cannibals

"They did not want to kill him. They wanted to humiliate him, and to do it in the longest way possible."

"This was the moment of revenge; revenge for all the years the upper classes had looked at peasants as animals."

"Collective madness erases individual boundaries. When everyone starts pushing, you must push too."

"Hatred, when mixed with drunkenness, becomes a celebration. A festival of ruin."

"Cannibalism here was not a need for survival, but a ritual act; an act to absorb the power of the one they hated."

"Justice... sometimes turns into a predatory bait."

"If Alain de Montray had been poor, this would never have happened. It was the clothes and the wealth that killed him."

"A society that ignores suppressed rage will one day face it in its most terrifying form."

"They did not want the law, they only wanted to be the law themselves—for one afternoon."

"The greatest horror is always in the details, not in the whole story."

"What history fears most is the moment when humans decide to be human no longer."

Written & researched by Dr. Shahin Siami