The war feeds the war

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War feeds war is a catchphrase from The Piccolomini , the second part of Friedrich Schiller's Wallenstein trilogy , the drama about the decline of the famous general Wallenstein during the Thirty Years' War . There Schiller has Isolani , the general of the Croats (who are particularly notorious as looters), say in Act One:

The war feeds the war. Do farmers go for it

Well, the emperor will win more soldiers.

This expression denotes the way of thinking of a mercenary leader ( Condottiere , Warlord ), for whom war is a " violent market " ( Georg Elwert ), which always creates its own milieu, and in which "violent entrepreneur" (like Wallenstein ) you To make a fortune and to keep it that is their interest.

literature

• Schiller, Friedrich (1798/2004). Alt, Peter-André, ed. Complete works: Dramas 2 (in German). Hanser publishing house. ISBN 3-446-20503-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schiller (1798) in Alt (2004), p. 319
2. ↑ see also Bellum se ipsum alet