Hath the L as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the L? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquityand idolatry.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORD1 Samuel15:22^3.

I remember that the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been,Would he had blotted a thousand: which they thought a malevolent speech†[but] I loved themanand do honour hismemory, on thisside idolatry, as much as any.

-Jonson, Ben
Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published 1640).

As the god of contemporary man's idolatry, science is a two-handed engine, and as such science is too important a human activity to leave to the scientists.

-Montagu, Ashley originally Israel Ehrenberg
  Book review in the NewYork Times, 26  Apr.

   The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Idolatry'.