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“I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.”

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Author:Hosea Ballou

“Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is unconditional and inexorable. ... The lowly Nazarene taught us the doctrine of non-resistance, and so convinced was he of the soundness of that doctrine that he sealed his belief with death on the cross. ... When human law conflicts with Divine law, my duty is clear. Conscience, my infallible guide, impels me to tell you that prison, death, or both, are infinitely preferable to joining any branch of the Army.”

“When Private Bradley [aka Chelsea] Manning put his conscience ahead of his personal well-being by allegedly releasing important information to the world's public via WikiLeaks, he was put into an inhumane solitary confinement and is now facing charges that carry the possibility of him spending the rest of his life in prison.”

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Author:Ray McGovern

“Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.”

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Author:James Ussher

“A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.”

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Book:A little book in C major

Source: A little book in C major

“I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.”

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Book:Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms

Source: Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms

“Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes — all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand.”

Source: Into the Wild