
“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
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.”
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!”
Jam
Dangerous (1991)
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)
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)
2019
"Jobs: Iconoclast and salesman" by Brian Williams, at MSNBC http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12974884/ (25 May 2006)
2000s
“6129. Who buys,
Had need of an hundred Eyes;
But one's enough,
For him that sells the Stuff.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land?”
Misattributed
“Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay”
“No man's land. There ain't no asylum here.
King Solomon he never lived 'round here.”
The Clash, "Straight to Hell", Combat Rock (1982).
Lyrics