Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 51 of the 1972 second edition of Henry Hazlitt’s superb – yet, sadly, largely overlooked – 1964 book, The Foundations of Morality:

Moralities are systems of principles whose acceptance by everyone as overruling the apparent dictates of immediate self-interest is in the long-run interest of everyone alike. We should be moral because being moral is following rules which disregard apparent self-interest in the short run and are designed to promote our own real long-run interest as well as the interest of others who are affected by our actions.