An idea from The Trial and Death of Socrates

Since childhood, a kind of inner voice had stopped him when he was about to do something wrong. It never told him what to do. It kept him out of politics, since he believed he would have been killed long ago there and done no good.

From The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato

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