# Quote — Laura Penny, More Money Than Brains

> Bankers grovelled before the governments they usually revile, like wispy poets whining for grant money. They got billions in bailouts, yet somehow the financial sector still inspires more trust and respect than the government that saved it from itself.

- Author: [Laura Penny](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laura-penny.md)
- Book: [More Money Than Brains](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laura-penny/more-money-than-brains.md)
- Page: 168
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laura_Penny#More_Money_than_Brains_(2010)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/laura-penny/more-money-than-brains/bankers-grovelled-before

## More from this book

> The humanities are despised because they are dangerous. They arm us with the intellectual weapons we need to fight the forces of ignorance and idiocracy, and to free ourselves from freedumb.

p. 235 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laura-penny/more-money-than-brains/the-humanities-are.md)

> I can sculpt a birthday cake out of shit and insist that I obviously mean cake, that my real intent is to wish you a happy birthday, but my intentions and protestations cannot turn crap into a delicious dessert.

p. 212 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laura-penny/more-money-than-brains/i-can-sculpt.md)

> Anyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909.

p. 13 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laura-penny/more-money-than-brains/anyone-taking-classics.md)