In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace — and what did they produce?The cuckoo-clock.– Orson Welles, “The Third Man“
Quote: War vs Peace
January 12th, 2010 Comments