67 Quotes by Carl Hart

Researchers, treatment providers - we all have a stake in the drug hysteria game.

When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so that becomes the expectation. People learn to become better criminals in jail and prison.

If you are funding researchers to look primarily for pathology, not surprisingly, that is what they are going to find and report on.

I strongly discourage any intellectuals, regardless of race, from speaking on matters for which they have limited or no expertise.

Too often, ill-informed rhetoric has led to emotional hysteria that obfuscates solid evidence regarding the real problems faced by poor people and, in overwhelmingly great proportions, by black people.

The listening community has the obligation of distinguishing informed opinion from tweets.

One of the things we know about people is that people are not very courageous in general.

Disregard belief systems that aren't based on empirical studies.

Politicians move when the public requires them to move.