All laws which can be violated without doing any one an injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of men that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects; for we always strive towards what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws formed to regulate things which almost be entirely forbidden...He who tries to determine everything by law will ferment crime rather than lessen it. (Baruch Spinoza) Â
