From the movie The Third Man,
“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. - Orson Welles
Good movie! I thought about it recently when I heard some hospital was caught watering down the COVID vaccine.