I wasn't secure enough as an architect and so I closed it all up and made furniture that nobody would like.

We owe it to our children, our grandchildren and the generations we will never meet to keep it safe and to pass it along.

This harbor, protected at first by its own walls, was an important station of the Roman Imperial Fleet.

I couldn't deal with the success of furniture I wasn't secure enough as an architect and so I closed it all up and made furniture that nobody would like.

Yes, it does say that, but in a very specific context the anticipated conquest of the sanctuary city of Mecca where fighting was usually forbidden, and the permission comes hedged about with qualifiers.