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{{cquote|'Social justice' can be given a meaning only in a directed or 'command' economy (such as an army) in which the individuals are ordered what to do; and any particular conception of 'social justice' could be realized only in such a centrally-directed system.<ref>Friedrich August Hayek, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=qq6p11NPdOoC Law, Legislation and Liberty: The Mirage of Social Justice]'' (University of Chicago Press, 1978) ISBN 0226320839, p. 69</ref>}}
 
{{cquote|'Social justice' can be given a meaning only in a directed or 'command' economy (such as an army) in which the individuals are ordered what to do; and any particular conception of 'social justice' could be realized only in such a centrally-directed system.<ref>Friedrich August Hayek, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=qq6p11NPdOoC Law, Legislation and Liberty: The Mirage of Social Justice]'' (University of Chicago Press, 1978) ISBN 0226320839, p. 69</ref>}}
 
Oppenheimer never did embrace [[Judaism]], turning instead to philosophical [[Hinduism]]. He apparently never studied [[Hebrew]] but learned [[Sanskrit]] and read the Bhavagad Gita in the original language; he would later list it as one of the ten books that did most to shape his “philosophy of life.”<ref>''[http://www.christiancentury.org/ Christian Century]'', May 15, 1963, p. 647, cited in James A. Hijiya, "[http://www.amphilsoc.org/sites/default/files/Hijiya.pdf The Gita of Robert Oppenheimer]," ''Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society,'' Vol. 144, No. 2 (June 2000), p. 130 (PDF p. 8)</ref> What flashed through his mind upon witnessing the [[Trinity explosion]], he said, was a line from this Hindu scripture:
 
Oppenheimer never did embrace [[Judaism]], turning instead to philosophical [[Hinduism]]. He apparently never studied [[Hebrew]] but learned [[Sanskrit]] and read the Bhavagad Gita in the original language; he would later list it as one of the ten books that did most to shape his “philosophy of life.”<ref>''[http://www.christiancentury.org/ Christian Century]'', May 15, 1963, p. 647, cited in James A. Hijiya, "[http://www.amphilsoc.org/sites/default/files/Hijiya.pdf The Gita of Robert Oppenheimer]," ''Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society,'' Vol. 144, No. 2 (June 2000), p. 130 (PDF p. 8)</ref> What flashed through his mind upon witnessing the [[Trinity explosion]], he said, was a line from this Hindu scripture:
{{cquote|I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.<ref>"[http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,853367,00.html The Eternal Apprentice]," ''Time'', November 8, 1948</ref><ref>https://www.wired.co.uk/article/manhattan-project-robert-oppenheimer</ref>}}
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{{cquote|I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.<ref>"[http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,853367,00.html The Eternal Apprentice]," ''Time'', November 8, 1948</ref><ref>Temperton, James (August 9, 2017). [https://www.wired.co.uk/article/manhattan-project-robert-oppenheimer 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds'. The story of Oppenheimer's infamous quote]. ''Wired''. Retrieved August 1, 2018.</ref>}}
    
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