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Daily Inspiration Quote by Dominic Monaghan

"If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli"

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Weaponized absurdity is doing the heavy lifting here: Dominic Monaghan builds a moral hierarchy and then gleefully trips over it. “Uninvent” is the key tell. It’s a childlike, god-mode verb that treats history, technology, and dinner-table trauma as equally editable settings. That framing lets him jump from the unarguable (Hitler, guns) to the petty (broccoli) without sounding like he’s making light of genocide; he’s mocking the fantasy that we can cleanly delete evil without breaking the world.

The line’s mechanics are basically a three-beat routine. First beat: “Hitler’s mum” is a deliberately jarring workaround to time-travel ethics, sidestepping the worn “kill Hitler” cliché by targeting origin, not outcome. It’s also darkly comic because it turns monstrous history into domestic causality, as if catastrophe were just a bad parenting pipeline. Second beat: “guns” widens the target from one villain to a system, hinting at a more structural anger - violence as design, not anomaly. Third beat: “broccoli” detonates the solemnity on purpose, yanking the audience back into the realm of everyday dislikes.

As an actor and pop-culture figure, Monaghan’s intent reads less like a policy argument than a personality flare: a quick, quotable mix of righteous outrage and self-deprecation. The subtext is about scale - how we perform seriousness in public, and how comedy becomes a pressure valve when the topic is too massive to hold straight-faced. The cultural context is late-90s/2000s lad-mag banter and talk-show one-liners, where shock adjacency is the currency: say something ethically obvious, then undercut it with something stupid, and you’ve got a meme before memes.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Monaghan, Dominic. (2026, January 17). If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-i-could-uninvent-anything-i-would-uninvent-47288/

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Monaghan, Dominic. "If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-i-could-uninvent-anything-i-would-uninvent-47288/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-i-could-uninvent-anything-i-would-uninvent-47288/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Dominic Monaghan (born December 8, 1976) is a Actor from Ireland.

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