• All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.

    Baruch Spinoza: All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate
 them.
    "Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.