Quote by C. Wright Mills
"The first lesson of power is to understand that you cannot understand power by reading about it alone—you must observe it in action within institutions."
More from C. Wright Mills
"The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society."
"The first lesson of the sociological imagination is this: the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period."
"Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both."
"The true intellectual is a person whose interests are not confined within a specialty but who has a passion for ideas."