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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."


By:

Baruch Spinoza (more quotes by Baruch Spinoza or books by/about Baruch Spinoza)


(1632-1677) Dutch philosopher of Sephardi Portuguese origin

Source:

cited in Atlantic Monthly, January 1955

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