A clip from Carol Reeds film The Third Man, 1949.
Cynical racketeer Harry Lime (Orson Welles) lectures Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) on the cultural merits of troubled times.

Harry Lime:
Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, 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! So long Holly. (less info)