1.   Bishops enjoy almost absolute power, and the laity have no means of rejecting a candidate, no matter how unsuitable.

2.   Even among left-wing clergy the idea of endowing one man with absolute power is abhorrent.

3.   It can be addictive, for power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

4.   It is, however, wrong to think of the Prime Minister as having absolute power.

5.   Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

6.   We begin by looking at power relationships, not at the absolute power of any single individual.

7.   Would a system not be a dictatorship if the ruler is unable to exercise absolute power?

8.   The bishops had almost absolute power.

9.   Parents used to have absolute power over their children.