She supposed it was one way to find money for the poor. Simply rob anyone who was not poor. Of course, that would just make everyone poor in the end, but it might work for a time. … People who claimed they were collecting money to help others often had a way of letting a good bit stick in their own pockets, or else they liked the power that spreading it about gave them, liked it far to much. She had better feeling for the man who freely gave one cooper from his own purse than for the fellow who wrested a gold crown from someone else’s. Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven, 1993