Money is not the root of all evil, rather it is the Love of money that is the root of all evil.?

Question

Whts your opinion on this????

Answer 1

You say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know and love its nature. To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money, and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another, their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.

But money demands of you the highest virtues, if you wish to make it or to keep it. Men who have no courage, pride or self-esteem, men who have no moral sense of their right to their money and are not willing to defend it as they defend their life, men who apologize for being rich, will not remain rich for long. They are the natural bait for the swarms of looters that stay under rocks for centuries, but come crawling out at the first smell of a man who begs to be forgiven for the guilt of owning wealth. They will hasten to relieve him of the guilt, and of his life, as he deserves.

Then you will see the rise of the men of the double standard, the men who live by force, yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their looted money, the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue. In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law, men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims, then money becomes its creators' avenger. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they've passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter.

Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion, when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing,when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors,when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you,when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice,you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that is does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.

Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked, 'Account overdrawn.'

When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, 'Who is destroying the world? You are.

You stand in the midst of the greatest achievements of the greatest productive civilization and you wonder why it's crumbling around you, while you're damning its life-blood,money. You look upon money as the savages did before you, and you wonder why the jungle is creeping back to the edge of your cities. Throughout men's history, money was always seized by looters of one brand or another, whose names changed, but whose method remained the same: to seize wealth by force and to keep the producers bound, demeaned, defamed, deprived of honor. That phrase about the evil of money, which you mouth with such righteous recklessness, comes from a time when wealth was produced by the labor of slaves,slaves who repeated the motions once discovered by somebody's mind and left unimproved for centuries. So long as production was ruled by force, and wealth was obtained by conquest, there was little to conquer, Yet through all the centuries of stagnation and starvation, men exalted the looters, as aristocrats of the sword, as aristocrats of birth, as aristocrats of the bureau, and despised the producers, as slaves, as traders, as shopkeepers,as industrialists.

To the glory of mankind, there was, for the first and only time in history, a country of money,and I have no higher, more reverent tribute to pay to America, for this means: a country of reason, justice, freedom, production, achievement. For the first time, man's mind and money were set free, and there were no fortunes-by-conquest, but only fortunes-by-work, and instead of swordsmen and slaves, there appeared the real maker of wealth, the greatest worker, the highest type of human being,the self-made man,the American industrialist.

If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose,because it contains all the others,the fact that they were the people who created the phrase 'to make money.' No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity,to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted of obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words 'to make money' hold the essence of human morality.

Yet these were the words for which Americans were denounced by the rotted cultures of the looters' continents. Now the looters' credo has brought you to regard your proudest achievements as a hallmark of shame, your prosperity as guilt, your greatest men, the industrialists, as blackguards, and your magnificent factories as the product and property of muscular labor, the labor of whip-driven slaves, like the pyramids of Egypt. The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of the dollar and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide, as, I think, he will.

Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips and guns�or dollars. Take your choice,there is no other,and your time is running out.

Answer 2

Money is simply an energy source. It is neither good nor bad.

Neither it, nor the love of it is the root of "evil".

Greed is the root of many problems of humanity. There is nothing "wrong" with having money or wanting more of it for that matter. How you go about getting more money might be significant, however. Do you get a job? Train to get a better job? Do you rob a bank? Do you make good investments? Do you save? Do you spend it all on impulse shopping? Do you gamble it away? Do you think you'll hit the jackpot in the lottery someday? Do you give it away? Do you hoard it?

What is your attitude about money? If you feel that it is bad, then you put a negative energy around it. Do you feel like you are bad or wrong to have money, or that you never have enough? These vibrations go into the universe and according to the law of attraction, you won't have any money. If you put positive energy around it, you like to have money, you enjoy it, you always seem to have enough to go around, then it will flow to you easily and naturally.

Answer 3

There are 2 roots of all evils

Love of money. BEcause money itself can help u or destroy u. Love money, horde it, store it... there will be evil. Use ur money well, n..... there won't be any evil

There is another root.

Telling of lies. Any lie even if it is a big lie or a small lie because one little lie leads to spite and jealousy and hate and makes everyone go over the edge

so, my opinion is, love of money n lies are the roots of all evils

Answer 4

Money can be the root of something good too. If you donate to charities, for example. It can also be used to help people out.

It is not money that is evil, it is in the way some people use it. It is the unwise choices that people make that can corrupt any basic thing in this world.

Answer 5

they say money is the root of all evil because of bad things that people do with it. But, there are good things that people do with money too. Some people truly do love money, but many just love what you could do with it, as long as it is not immoral what you want to do with it, i don't think it is evil (although some religious person may argue with me-but i don't care.)

Answer 6

That is true,in 1Timothy 6:10,it says just that. Yah knows we need money to maintain,but the love of money will let you stray away from Yah and his commandments. People kill for money,they betray each other for money,they will sell their soul for the love of money. People that just uses money,uses it for needs and even for wants,but once you love it you'll do anything for it. It then becomes a diety. It becomes an idol,it is what you worship. Some put money above Yah,then it becomes the root of all evil because the money is all that matters.

Answer 7

1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Not my opinion, Paul's.

Answer 8

Like the Bible says... the LOVE of money is the root of all evil.

Answer 9

I think it is selfishness that is the root of all evil. It is not just wanting money, or someone else's money. It can also be wanting to satisfy your own physical appetites to the exclusion or the violation of the needs or well-being of others.

Answer 10

Every body knows George Bush, is the root of all evil.

Answer 11

Money is fine, so is love of money. Ignorance is the root of all evil.