History Quotes / SillyReasonForWar

-->-- ''Welcome To Midnight Burger''. ''Chapter 12: Ted, Just Admit It.''

->'''Vimes''': So we're supposed to go to war over some rock that's only useful [[CircularReasoning if we have to go to war]]?
-->-- ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', about the hotly-contested but frankly useless island of Leshp

->''[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI The next great war in Europe]] [[TemptingFate will come from some damned silly thing in the Balkans.]]''

"[[WarIsHell Tolkien despised war and he wrote the story to reflect that.]] And I actually like how [[WesternAnimation/TheHobbit the animated Hobbit movie]] handles it. Bilbo is just like [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere "Wow, this is stupid. I'm sitting this shit out."]] And this movie has many moments where the characters are like "Wow, this whole conflict is really stupid." But they still spend two hours on ''mindless video game action!'' and I'm sorry but you can't have an entire fantasy action movie be about an event that all of the characters admit is stupid and pointless. The movie is actively telling you not to care."

->"One of the biggest problems with [[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies this movie]] is that the Battle of the Five Armies, is stupid. It's a stupid battle that happens for a stupid reason. And even Creator/JRRTolkien admits as much; hence why it is only covered for a few pages in [[Literature/TheHobbit the book]]. Bilbo is not even conscious for it. And in this movie it is the longest on-screen Lord of the Rings battle out of all of the movies. It condenses everything that made all of the battles in the original trilogy memorable and it throws all that shit in the trash. This is basically just a CGI football game!"\\

->"One of the biggest problems with [[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies this movie]] is that the Battle of the Five Armies, is stupid. It's a stupid battle that happens for a stupid reason. And even [[{{Creator/JRRTolkien}}]] admits as much; hence why it is only covered for a few pages in [[Literature/TheHobbit the book]]. Bilbo is not even conscious for it. And in this movie it is the longest on-screen Lord of the Rings battle out of all of the movies. It condenses everything that made all of the battles in the original trilogy memorable and it throws all that shit in the trash. This is basically just a CGI football game!"\\

->"One of the biggest problems with [[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies this movie]] is that the Battle of the Five Armies, is stupid. It's a stupid battle that happens for a stupid reason. And even Tolkien admits as much; hence why it is only covered for a few pages in the book. Bilbo is not even conscious for it. And in this movie it is the longest on-screen Lord of the Rings battle out of all of the movies. It condenses everything that made all of the battles in the original trilogy memorable and it throws all that shit in the trash. This is basically just a CGI football game!"\\
"[[WarIsHell Tolkien despised war and he wrote the story to reflect that.]] And I actually like how the animated Hobbit movie handles it. Bilbo is just like [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere "Wow, this is stupid. I'm sitting this shit out."]] And this movie has many moments where the characters are like "Wow, this whole conflict is really stupid." But they still spend two hours on ''mindless video game action!'' and I'm sorry but you can't have an entire fantasy action movie be about an event that all of the characters admit is stupid and pointless. The movie is actively telling you not to care."

-->-- '''The Story of the Ooks''', ''WesternAnimation/GreenEggsAndHam2019''

[[YouCanPanicNow To worry, worry, super-scurry]]\\

-->-- '''Alexander Pope''', ''Literature/TheRapeOfTheLock''

->''[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI The next great war in Europe]] will come from some damned silly thing in the Balkans.''

-->--'''Nena''', "99 Red Balloons"

-->--'''Alexander Pope''', ''Literature/TheRapeOfTheLock''

-->--''Literature/GulliversTravels''

-->--''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', "Nerds of a Feather''

-->--'''Sheila Broflovski,''' ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut''

-->--'''Gulliver,''' ''WesternAnimation/MaxFleischersGulliversTravels''

-->--''WesternAnimation/PeaceOnEarth''

-->--''[[Literature/{{Deverry}} Daggerspell]]''

-->--''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', about the hotly-contested but frankly useless island of Leshp

-->--ComicBook/TheJoker, ComicBook/TheKillingJoke

-->''Literature/TheBelgariad''

--> ''WebVideo/MyLittlePonyTheMentallyAdvancedSeries'': 'Budget Impasse'

-->--''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''

-->--'''UsefulNotes/OttoVonBismarck'''

-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal''', ''Point to Point Navigation''

-->--'''Chris Hedges''', ''War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning''

-->--SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, ComicBook/TheKillingJoke

-->''[[FandomRivalry Cause our movie's better than yours!]]''

-->--''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'', about the hotly-contested but frankly useless island of Leshp

-->--'''Creator/OttoVonBismarck'''

-->--'''Alexander Pope''', ''The Rape of the Lock''

->''"What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things[...!]"''\\
-->--''The Rape of the Lock''

--''The Rape of the Lock''

->What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things[...!]\\

->''"[[Theatre/TroilusAndCressida Troilus]], at the start of the play, states that he will not fight for Helen, a woman portrayed by Shakespeare as a mindless paramour. 'It is,' he says, 'too starved a subject for my sword.' Dying for this Helen, who [[BrainlessBeauty has neither morals nor wit]], is absurd. Yet I have seen fight for even more ridiculous reasons. There was no reason for [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars the war in Bosnia]]. The warring sides [[PropagandaMachine invented national myths and histories]] designed to mask that Croats, Muslims, and Serbs are virtually indistinguishable...Fighting for a Helen who is a strumpet, or DonQuixote's Dulcinea, [[RealityIsUnrealistic looks noble by comparison.]]"''