Monotheism Quotes
19 quotes by 17 authors
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Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced . . .…
— Carlton J. H. Hayes
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Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a monstrous…
— Isaac Bonewits
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The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all books in the…
— Michel Onfray
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A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don't believe…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Monotheism begins with a god who hates trees.
— John Lamb Lash
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Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a…
— Israel Shenker
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By God, we shall not stop, God willing, except at the doorsteps of the White House, and to raise the banner of monotheism on their…
— Osama bin Laden
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Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.
— James Henry Breasted
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The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human…
— Gore Vidal
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Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims…
— George Steiner
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Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only…
— Carroll Quigley
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It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the accepted norm. But…
— Robert Winston
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The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only…
— Thomas Szasz
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Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.
— Gore Vidal
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Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people,…
— Gore Vidal
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All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.
— Julius Wellhausen
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The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.
— Walter Kaufmann
Who Wrote These Monotheism Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 19 Monotheism Quotes as follows: