Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
- Dante AlighieriThe Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.
- Alex SinkMen act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
- Alex ThiermannMy arms have mutinied against me '” brutes!
- Wilfred Owen