“In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.” It means that a mother is the world to a man as she is the person to give him life, the person that raises him and the first woman to be in his life. As a man's mother dies his world should be shattered in pieces. So any men who does not cry when their mother dies never loved her. That only a heartless person could not cry when his mother would die. And in our society there no place for heartless people.