The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church.

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that&#39;s different.

There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you&#39;re familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there&#39;s also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us.

It&#39;s harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

When I first envisioned &#39;Funny Games&#39; in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.

And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be &#39;Civil War&#39; - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.

Michael Haneke

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Written By Michael Haneke

Written By Michael Haneke

Written By Michael Haneke

Written By Michael Haneke

Written By Michael Haneke

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