In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on — that is, badly.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing. It might be a thousand years. At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively.
We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation. In the face of the Thought Police there is no other way.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.