It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.