“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
As quoted in Land in America : Its Value, Use, and Control (1981) by Peter M. Wolf, p. 6
Unsourced variant: Buy land, they aren't making any more of it.
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“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“It ain't too much stuff,
Jam, it ain't too much,
It ain't too much for me to jam!”
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
Jam
Dangerous (1991)
Babe Ruth (1895–1948) American baseball player
Responding to a reporter asking whether or not he believed that other players merited salaries comparable to his own (i.e. $52,000 a year, as per Ruth's newly signed 1922 contract), as quoted in "Have to Get More of 'Em,' Says Babe Ruth When He Hears of the Income Tax," in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (March 10, 1922)
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Comments at VTEX Day digital convention in Sao Paulo, Brazil (30 May 2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shx-sXngQUI&t=2182s; also quoted in "Obama tells Brazil: In America ‘anybody can buy any weapon any time", Washington Examiner (31 May 2019) <br class="br">2019
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
"Jobs: Iconoclast and salesman" by Brian Williams, at MSNBC http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12974884/ (25 May 2006) <br class="br">2000s
“6129. Who buys,
Had need of an hundred Eyes;
But one's enough,
For him that sells the Stuff.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land?”
Chief Seattle (1786–1866) Duwamish chief
Misattributed
“Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
“No man's land. There ain't no asylum here.
King Solomon he never lived 'round here.”
Joe Strummer (1952–2002) British musician, singer, actor and songwriter
The Clash, "Straight to Hell", Combat Rock (1982).
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