In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite. . . Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka.
His credibility is zilch, virtually nil.
One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.
Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat. , Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia. ]
It doesn't make much sense and it's nil premium. They're going to have co-CEOs. . . which is a very uncomfortable structure.
Never despair. [Nil desperandum. ]
Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken. [Lat. , De mortuis nil nisi bonum. ]
The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat. , Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit. ]
Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.
Tombay's hopes, which were nil before, are absolutely zero now
