Master/slave may refer to:
- Master-slave dialectic, a concept in Hegelian philosophy.
- Master–slave morality, a central theme of Friedrich Nietzsche's works.
- Master-slave (technology), a model of communication between two devices in computing.
- Master/slave (BDSM), a type of consensual relationship of dominance and submission.
- Master/Slave, a hidden track by the alternative rock band Pearl Jam on the album Ten.
Famous quotes containing the words master and/or slave:
“He’s a man who shoots from the hip. And a man who’s hip when he shoots.”
—Jeremy Larner, U.S. screenwriter. Banquet master of ceremonies (Pat Harrington, Jr.)
“Do not human beings have a hard service on earth, and are not their days like the days of a laborer? Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like laborers who look for their wages, so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 7:1-3.