Twelve Angry Men Quotes

Question 1

Empathy

Juror 1

Answer 1

“Broke my heart…”

Question 2

Empathy

Juror 2

Answer 2

“You can’t send someone off to die on evidence like that.”

Question 3

Empathy

Juror 5

Answer 3

“I’ve lived in slums all my life.”

Question 4

Empathy (lack of)

Juror 7

Answer 4

“He deserves to die.”

Question 5

Empathy

Juror 8

Answer 5

“He has had a rotten 18 years.”
“I put myself in the boys place.”
“Suppose you were the one on trial?”
“We’re talking about a person’s life here, we can’t just decide in 5 minutes.”

Question 6

Empathy

Juror 9

Answer 6

“It’s not easy to stand against the ridicule of others.”
“It’s only one night, a boy may die.”
“After 75 years… that’s a very sad thing to be a nothing.”

Question 7

Empathy/Justice

Juror 11

Answer 7

“What kind of man are you? … You cannot play like this with a man’s life.”

Question 8

Justice

The Judge

Answer 8

“I urge you to deliberate honestly and thoughtfully.”

Question 9

Justice (warped view)

Juror 3

Answer 9

“We’re trying to put a guilty man where he belongs.”

Question 10

Truth (clouded)

Juror 3

Answer 10

“I have no personal feelings at all, I’m talking facts.”

Question 11

Justice/Truth

Juror 3

Answer 11

“The old man said he yelled it out, that’s good enough for me.”

Question 12

Prejudice/Emotion

Juror 3

Answer 12

“I can feel the knife going in.”

Question 13

Justice/Honesty

Juror 3

Answer 13

“You took an oath in the courtroom, you can’t just quit. It’s dishonest.”

Question 14

Justice 
Juror 3 (to Juror 7)

Answer 14

“What do you mean you’ve had enough?”

Question 15

Doubt

Juror 3

Answer 15

“Reasonable doubt! That’s nothing but words.”

Question 16

Logic

Juror 4

Answer 16

“Wouldn’t you call those beatings a motive for him to kill his father?”

“Nobody wears eyeglasses to bed.”

Question 17

Doubt

Juror 4

Answer 17

“I now have a reasonable doubt.”

Question 18

Logic

Juror 5

Answer 18

“Witnesses can make mistakes.”

Question 19

Logic/Lateral thinking

Juror 6

Answer 19

“I’m looking for a motive. A motive’s very important.”

“Suppose you talk us all out of this, and that kid really did stick the knife into his father?”

Question 20

Selfishness

Juror 7

Answer 20

“Look at the time!”

“Now we can just quickly give this kid a guilty verdict and I can get to the ball game.”

Question 21

Prejudice

Juror 7

Answer 21

“Look, Sonny”

Question 22

Justice
Juror 8 (about lawyer)

Answer 22

“The lawyer was letting too many things go by.”

Question 23

Justice/Truth

Juror 8

Answer 23

“I think the testimony that can send a man to his death should be that accurate.”

“You see, sometimes the facts that are staring us in the face are wrong.”

Question 24

(Anti) Prejudice 
Juror 8 (to Juror 3)

Answer 24

“You want the boy to die for your own personal reasons!”

Question 25

Doubt

Juror 8

Answer 25

“Nothing is that positive, nothing.”
“But they’re people, people make mistakes.”
“Isn’t it possible that he was wrong?”

Question 26

Justice

Juror 9

Answer 26

“You think you have a monopoly on the truth?”

Question 27

(Anti) Prejudice

Juror 9

Answer 27

“I don’t think the type of boy he is has anything to do with it.”

Question 28

Prejudice

Juror 10

Answer 28

"He is a common ignorant slob."
"A kid like that."
"You're scared of the white man."
"These people are born to lie ... There's not one that's any good."
"Why are you so damn polite?"

Question 29

Justice (lack of)

Juror 10

Answer 29

“I’m saying we get him before his people get us. I don’t give a damn about the law.”

Question 30

Logic

Juror 11

Answer 30

“I do not have to be loyal to one side of the other. I’m simply asking questions.”

Question 31

Legal system

Juror 11

Answer 31

“I always thought a man in this country was entitled to have an unpopular opinion.”

Question 32

Truth

Juror 11

Answer 32

“Facts may be coloured by the personalities of the individuals that present them.”

Question 33

Prejudice/Past experiences

Juror 11

Answer 33

“For the same reason you’re not. I was brought up that way.”

Question 34

Justice

Juror 11

Answer 34

“What makes you consider this vote a personal triumph?”

Question 35

Doubt

Juror 11

Answer 35

“To say that a man is capable of murder, does not mean that he has committed murder.”

“I do not have to defend myself to you. I now have a reasonable doubt.”

Question 36

Inability to discern appropriateness

Juror 12

Answer 36

“Put it on a bus and see if it gets off at Wall St.”