Daily Inspiration Quote by Fatos Nano

“Traditional enemies” is a clinical phrase with a loaded threat inside it: if your politics runs on inherited stories, it will keep manufacturing villains to justify itself. Fatos Nano is speaking as a Balkan statesman shaped by the post-communist 1990s, when Albania’s fragile institutions, regional spillovers, and a hardening politics of identity made “history” less a record than a weapon. The line isn’t romantic about reconciliation; it’s tactical. He’s warning that default narratives - old grievances, fixed blocs, the reflex to see neighbors or rivals as permanent antagonists - function like a machine that reliably produces conflict.

The craft here is how he shifts blame away from any single opponent and toward a shared mental infrastructure. “Traditional way of thought” is shorthand for the politics of myth: the comfortable certainty that your side’s past suffering authorizes present aggression. By pairing that with “extremist circles from both sides,” Nano smuggles in an unpopular but necessary symmetry. He’s trying to undercut the moral monopoly every faction claims, suggesting that the loudest actors thrive on provocation because chaos validates their worldview and expands their leverage.

“Find causes” is the most revealing verb. It implies not discovery but invention: grievances can be curated, incidents can be amplified, misunderstandings can be laundered into destiny. The subtext is a plea for modernization as de-escalation - not just new policies, but new habits of interpretation. In places where the past is always eligible for redeployment, peace requires interrupting the story engine, not merely negotiating its latest chapter.