"Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion." ― Ambrose Bierce Topic(s): Religion More From Ambrose Bierce "Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age." "Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art." "We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect." More In Religion "There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one."― Sophia Bush "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both."― Louis D. Brandeis "It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read."― Thomas Jefferson