Prosper Mérimée said this quote

“ It strikes me you might place your gifts better. Why should you send powder to a ruffian who will use it to commit crimes? But for the deplorable weakness every one here seems to have for the bandits, they would have disappeared out of Corsica long ago.The worst men in our country are not those who are 'in the country.'Give them bread, if it so please you. But I will not have you supply them with ammuni ”