In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.
Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.
The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.
I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of.
Exterminate all the brutes!
Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)
A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.
Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.
When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.