Posted by
Far_view on Friday, November 23, 2007 6:03:11 PM
I just ran across this one... it's pretty good:
"
In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo,
Leonardo da Vinci,
and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had
500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo
clock."
-Harry Lime (
Orson Welles), "The Third Man"