Quote from Baruch Spinoza 

"Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright."

Quote by:
Baruch Spinoza
(1632-1677) Dutch philosopher of Sephardi Portuguese origin
Source:
cited in Atlantic Monthly, January 1955
 
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