The Oath of the Horatii, by Jacques-Louis David, 1784. Louvre, Paris.
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As he watched the mushroom cloud form at the first atomic-bomb test in July 1945, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer recalled a line from the Bhagavad Gita: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941
