लव ऑफ़ money

It is said the
“Love of money is the root of all evil”
Now what is love?
Is it the unexplainable deep feeling of affection towards someone or something? Or the deepest regards towards something or someone? Which ever it is it tends towards
“A feeling of reverence” towards something.
Evil can be defined as a negative destructive and bad act, state or a broad term used to describe an intentional negative moral acts or thoughts that are cruel, unjust or selfish.
And
Money is the means of exchange pure and simple!

Is this what is responsible for all the evil?