# Quote — Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems

> No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. [...] But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren't designed to produce them, if we don't speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.

- Author: [Donella H. Meadows](https://www.leafyquotes.com/donella-h-meadows.md)
- Book: [Thinking in Systems](https://www.leafyquotes.com/donella-h-meadows/thinking-in-systems.md)
- Page: 176
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Donella_Meadows#Thinking_in_Systems:_A_Primer_(2008)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/donella-h-meadows/thinking-in-systems/no-one-can

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> How is it that one way of seeing the world becomes so widely shared that institutions, technologies, production systems, buildings, cities, become shaped around that way of seeing?

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> There always will be limits to growth.

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> The bounded rationality of each actor in a system may not lead to decisions that further the welfare of the system as a whole.

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