Twelve Angry Men Quotes Flashcards
Empathy
Juror 1
“Broke my heart…”
Empathy
Juror 2
“You can’t send someone off to die on evidence like that.”
Empathy
Juror 5
“I’ve lived in slums all my life.”
Empathy (lack of)
Juror 7
“He deserves to die.”
Empathy
Juror 8
“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.”
Empathy
Juror 9
“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.”
Empathy/Justice
Juror 11
“What kind of man are you? … You cannot play like this with a man’s life.”
Justice
The Judge
“I urge you to deliberate honestly and thoughtfully.”
Justice (warped view)
Juror 3
“We’re trying to put a guilty man where he belongs.”
Truth (clouded)
Juror 3
“I have no personal feelings at all, I’m talking facts.”
Justice/Truth
Juror 3
“The old man said he yelled it out, that’s good enough for me.”
Prejudice/Emotion
Juror 3
“I can feel the knife going in.”
Justice/Honesty
Juror 3
“You took an oath in the courtroom, you can’t just quit. It’s dishonest.”
Justice Juror 3 (to Juror 7)
“What do you mean you’ve had enough?”
Doubt
Juror 3
“Reasonable doubt! That’s nothing but words.”
Logic
Juror 4
“Wouldn’t you call those beatings a motive for him to kill his father?”
“Nobody wears eyeglasses to bed.”
Doubt
Juror 4
“I now have a reasonable doubt.”
Logic
Juror 5
“Witnesses can make mistakes.”
Logic/Lateral thinking
Juror 6
“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?”
Selfishness
Juror 7
“Look at the time!”
“Now we can just quickly give this kid a guilty verdict and I can get to the ball game.”
Prejudice
Juror 7
“Look, Sonny”
Justice Juror 8 (about lawyer)
“The lawyer was letting too many things go by.”
Justice/Truth
Juror 8
“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.”
(Anti) Prejudice Juror 8 (to Juror 3)
“You want the boy to die for your own personal reasons!”
Doubt
Juror 8
“Nothing is that positive, nothing.”
“But they’re people, people make mistakes.”
“Isn’t it possible that he was wrong?”
Justice
Juror 9
“You think you have a monopoly on the truth?”
(Anti) Prejudice
Juror 9
“I don’t think the type of boy he is has anything to do with it.”
Prejudice
Juror 10
"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?"
Justice (lack of)
Juror 10
“I’m saying we get him before his people get us. I don’t give a damn about the law.”
Logic
Juror 11
“I do not have to be loyal to one side of the other. I’m simply asking questions.”
Legal system
Juror 11
“I always thought a man in this country was entitled to have an unpopular opinion.”
Truth
Juror 11
“Facts may be coloured by the personalities of the individuals that present them.”
Prejudice/Past experiences
Juror 11
“For the same reason you’re not. I was brought up that way.”
Justice
Juror 11
“What makes you consider this vote a personal triumph?”
Doubt
Juror 11
“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.”
Inability to discern appropriateness
Juror 12
“Put it on a bus and see if it gets off at Wall St.”
