Evil? dirty?

Very often we heard people saying "money is the root of all evil". People said this so often that it nearly becomes a fact. However how true is this statement?

Money is only a creation of human for the sake of convenience in transferring goods and services. People in the olden days does not use money, they use the barter system. There is no money at that time but evil does exists! So, how could you say that money is the root of all evil? Evil comes before money!

It's actually the greed of human towards money that is the root of evil. People try many many ways to get money. Of course, some uses illegal(evil) ways to get money. How could you blame money when it's just a piece of note that does nothing bad? It's the greed of human that creates all the evil! When a robber robs a bank(for money), how could you blame the money but not the robber?

Let's turn to another scenario. It's also very common to hear people saying "politics are dirty!" I've recently received a mail from my friend. One paragraph wrote

"One can claim not to want to be involved in politics, but politics will not spare any one, in fact, every minute of our life is decided by one political decision or other.

The "dirty politics" theme is an eternal excuse for apathy, disinterest and abdication. It is not politics - which must be regarded as one of the most noble forms of public service - which is dirty, but people who make politics dirty. All the necessity for "clean" and idealistic people to enter politics to clean up politics and raise quality and standards."

See the connection between these two cases? It's not money or politics to be blamed for being evil or dirty. It's the people who make things complicated!