Freedom; Independence

It is not enough to let our people go. We have to take them somewhere.

Our ancestors had spent 210 years in Egypt. They couldn’t wait a few more hours? Why the mad rush?

Freedom is won not on the battlefield, nor in the political arena, nor in the courts, national or international, but in the human imagination and will.

Religion, they arugue, stifles the imagination, stunts our creative style, forever shouts instructions and lays down the law. Why would someone want to submit to the rigors of religion when he can be a free spirit?

The problem with most revolutions is that they are true revolutions -- revolve a full 360 degrees and the same ingrained patterns reassert themselves...

I'm glad my kids feel so free. As for me, I'm still a slave and Pharaoh, king of Egypt, never died. I labor for him all week long

You can hide it enough so it doesn't embarrass you in public. You can pretty it up so that others are not as annoyed with it. You can try to ignore its whelps and howls when it gets out of hand. But can you free yourself of your ego?

True freedom, as celebrated on Passover, is personified by the child's absolute dependence