Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.
H. L. MenckenScience, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
H. L. MenckenHistory deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
H. L. Mencken