John Dowie may refer to:
- John Alexander Dowie (1847–1907), Scottish clergyman who founded Zion, Illinois
- John Dowie (artist) (1915–2008), Australian sculptor and painter
- John Dowie (footballer) (born 1955), Scottish footballer
- John Dowie (humourist) (born 1950), English comedian, musician and writer
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“Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do they take up arms against the industries which encourage it. Parents hide their eyes from the books and comics, slasher films, videos and lyrics which form the texture of an adolescent culture. While all successful societies have inhibited instinct, ours encourages it. Or at least we profess ourselves powerless to interfere with it.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
““O haud your tongue, my father dear,
An’ dinna grieve your Sarah;
A better lord was never born
Than him I lost on Yarrow.”
—Unknown. The Dowie Houms o’ Yarrow (l. 53–56)