greed

In “Wall Street,” the most famous moment is when Michael Douglas’s Gordon Gekko tells a shareholder meeting, “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.”

To Thucydides, Athenian democracy failed first to contain Sparta and then to contain its own weaknesses of faction and greed.

"His sentence should reflect the breadth and depth of his crimes, his indifference to the risks to his country, and the magnitude of his greed."

They perceive American problems with capitalism—economic inequality, rising housing prices, corrupting greed—as requiring a governmental solution.

He climbed to his feet, and his eyes narrowed with greed.