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William Kirby

"You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime."

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"You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime."

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"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief."

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"The only defensible war is a war of defense."

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"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."

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"War is the most evil kind of human approach, unless it is for good cause."

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"The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use."

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"I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided."

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"There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war, there is only just and unjust war."

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"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."

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"The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war."

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"Why have we built warships to bring home peace?"

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William Kirby
"The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting."

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William Kirby
"The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully."

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William Kirby
"I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia."

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William Kirby
"You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime."

War

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William Kirby
"I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard."

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William Kirby
"Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century."

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William Kirby
"The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan."

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William Kirby
"There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state."

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William Kirby
"So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition."

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William Kirby
"The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development."

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